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Crafters have stuff gated for them too behind either combat or gathering. Which they also have said options available to them.

Also none of the drops needed for the relic are rare nor do they require RNG so thats a pretty strange example to say the least.

I think people are bothered because this game wasn't designed in a way that crafting/gathering plays a major role. Before you crafters get up in arms, I mean in terms of other MMOs where crafting is integrated into the core gameplay, let's say Runescape, Albion Online, ArcheAge, all are examples that people have likely heard about. In FFXIV it's sort of a "side" thing that sometimes plays an important role, and at other times, doesn't. The worst part is the huge investment and gil required to get into crafting, the specialist system which was meant to fix the omnicrafting system only made crafting worse without fixing anything.

No one wants to spend potentially 100+ hours leveling all the crafters if they don't enjoy crafting, so telling them to "Go level crafting and gathering and then do it." isn't a viable answer, and will just annoy them. They could socialize and make crafter friends, but due to the specialist system they'd need multiple friends who craft. Besides, if your sole purpose of making a friend is to utilize their crafting classes, you're not a friend, you're just using them for your own gain. Regardless of that, I don't think it's best to pin it on lazy players but rather SE. It was a horrible choice, it does nothing but funnel gil into the pockets of rich crafters and for what? There's nothing for those crafters to spend it on anyway as they can just make every expensive item. What they should have done is have a vendor sell the items at 100,000-200,000 each, so that it's a decent gil sink while being costly but not too costly.