If Specialist Recipes are only glamor items and furniture, then all those Specialist Actions they introduced in 3.0 are useless. Thus, even if Specialist Recipes only include glam and furn, it will only be temporary. There will be Specialist Recipes that require pushing of quality in either 3.1 or 3.2 the latest. I personally would guess that the sky pirates stuff would already be specialists items. But we will see in a few hours.

You are very right about how easy it is to find a friend with the needed specialization. But I dont think anyone would spend 480 red scrips to change specialization just to make a few items, and then spend another 480 red scripts to switch back. You are talking about 2.5 weeks of red scrips here. It's totally not worth it. If someone decided to make a switch, it will likely be for the long run.