My god I am so sick of people complaining about systems that actually encourage player cooperation in an MMO. It's an MMO! You're not supposed to be able to do absolutely everything yourself! Find other players who have the specializations you don't have and cooperate to make what you need. It's not hard.

I personally love the desynth and specialist lockouts. Honestly I wish they were more restrictive and forced players to only pick one instead of three. I don't really understand why these systems always get a lot of complaints, I'm quite sure that the vast majority of players can't omnicraft because of the meld requirements. Hell, most people can't even make the 2 star requirements right now on one crafter.

And restrictions like this are better for the economy. As it is now, everyone has access to make everything so prices are driven into the ground very quickly because of undercut wars as well as less people buying the stuff in general since they can just make most of it themselves. By putting recipes behind specializations, it makes specializing in a craft actually mean something.

So you know what, I'm all for systems like this. I wish they'd add more. People who want to treat this game like a single player game are missing one of the biggest points of MMOs.