Quote Originally Posted by Silverbane View Post
We don't feel punished. We just felt like we'd been giving a reason to level two more characters each up to L60 DoW (me WHM main, she Bard) and omnicrafters
Since you don't seem to feel the punishment, I'm going to assume that neither you, nor your wife has actually done any high level crafting during the 2.x patches.

It's a punishment to 2.x omnicrafters, because everything a player could do on just one character, now requires three characters. The crafting system in 2.x perfectly fit the "You can do everything on one character" thing, just like you can level every single job DoW/M job on a single character, without any requirement to actually specialize into any of the DoW/M jobs.