Do you want us to specialize or not?

[Nekodar]

Having capped both gatherer red scrips and crafter red scrips for the current week...
Gatherer: not really hard at all... and you can save up for future weeks ahead of time if you have the space. You can do a lot of other things between node pops so it's not like you camp the node all the time.
I still feel the red scrips gear is too expensive, and that favors should be moved to blue scrips.

Crafter: Useful to have all crafters at 60 as you then can select the optimal scrips/effort craft. Highly individual what you consider optimal. Also useful if you're able to collect all ingredients on your own. No gil spent, even if the market board value of the materials used is very high.
Ephemeral gathering nodes insanely useful to build up the necessary stock of crystals and clusters.
I feel that crafter materials should be moved to blue scrips, just like gathering favors, and that the scrips gear is too expensive.

Note: This is all from my own perspective where I will use the red scrips to obtain gear rather than materials to craft the gear.
In 2.x I had at best the Artisan set (token based one) with some melded accessories.
These accessories I still use as I don't want to remeld.