Specialist Compromise

[Nezerius]

This never was the point of the game. It was listed as a perk, and it still holds true as nothing is stopping you from being level 60 in everything. They just added onto it so crafters have to work together. It's a great system imo.

The point of the specialist system was to make it easier for crafters to stay competitive without having to become an omnicrafter. This system failed in 3.0, because few people cared about the specialist abilities. They saw this, so they added specialist recipes to force that system onto crafters.

Fortunately, they also saw that forcing crafters to work together isn't the way to go, so they've been applying bandaid fixes to the system, the current one being that recipes only stay specialist for one major patch.
At this point, they should just scrap the entire system and add something that encourages crafters to work together, perhaps through specialists needing less materials to craft something.

Considering red scrips are basically useless right now, I wouldn't expect them to keep scrips in 4.0. They'll probably change the system completely.

You can buy grade IV materia with the old red scrip tokens, which will likely still be used for overmelding in 4.0.