By having more guaranteed melding slots though (or enough "enough % bonus to make HQ worthwhile"), the price of materia will crash horribly. No longer do you need 30 materia for that last meld, you only need 1.

I think Desynth is supposed to be a way to recover goods with NQ, maybe they can work on that a bit. Say, desynthing will always return the 2 star crafting mat for example.

> improve the value of gathered goods
by increasing the value of gathered goods to unaffordable levels, they are making crafting much less accessible.