I know the pros and cons of the specialist systems have been argued plenty of times and while I am not a fan, I understand there are plenty of people like it.

It seems that it hasn't helped a whole lot with people who want to just level 1 or 2 crafting classes, so at this point it is mostly to prevent 1 person from controlling all the markets with the top tier crafts and is attempting to encourage crafters to work together. And though I find it annoying to have to bother other people to make ingots and feel the people who want to control the markets level an alt and do it anyway, I can see some merits to the system on the economy.

I've resigned myself to the fact that the specialist system isn't going anywhere, but here is my proposal: Let me make my own gear. I didn't get into crafting to make a whole bunch of gil that I don't spend anyway. I do it because I like to see my signature on all my gear. I just want an ability to toggle on (similar to the collectable synth) that lets me make untradable, non-specialist gear for myself. Especially when it is crafting gear (i.e. ironworks). Maybe it's stupid and I should just wait the 4 months until the gear is irrelevant, but I just want to make my own gear since that's why I started crafting in the first place.

TL/DR: I want to make my own gear.