OP.....you don't seem to realize the big picture here. The release of heavensward gave us crafters the lovely opportunity to sell ilvl180 gear. Of course, the materials for the gear needed might have been nightmarish to get and gated behind a weekly lockout, and due to such constraints might have been obscenely expensive to both craft and sell, aka noone ever bought it...buy hey, who cares right? Lets not forget the lovely gifts SE gave us in 3.1! Ilvl185 gear! The same ilvl as dungeon drops! Non-meldable! Ugly-as-sin! Epic! Can't forget all locked behind specialist-recipes too! Let's not forget that epic one recipe that culinarian got.

All sarcasm aside, the point is this; do not delude yourself into thinking SE cares about crafters; they care about how they can marginalize crafters while giving everything we do to non-crafters.