crafting is not going to be like ARR, SE seem to think they have no choice but make it crazy hard / time gated so that crafters don't break there game with op gear.

the increase to red scrip mats trade is the only good thing for crafters and really the level they are now is the level they should of been introduced with.

the diadem is not an option for gather items either really unless you have no gather scrips because its super time gated on rare item spawns and enemies that one shot gatherers and you cant use stealth because it doesn't work in the diadem.

scrips are the only viable way to get the bis gear still, until a lot more people start to realise they can make gil from selling the mats from diadem gather trades but that just feeds into what some complain as gil flowing away from crafters.

but seriously if your into crafting just for the gil then go be a gatherer as they are the ones making gil since 3.0 hit and will continue to do so for he foreseeable future, last I saw gatherers make 16+mil from red scrips items alone per week, never mind taking into account legendary nodes and other random mats they can get.