"Crafting has been my whole game for months now"

I am suprised it took you that long. Took me 2 months for all 1-50 and 10 days for all 50-60 with limited funding and a RL full time job. I can only guess you are in a small server where mats are very very expensive.

And this a MMO, everything is grindy, shouldnt be anything new.