Crafting was good at release (ui lag aside) because it was actual gameplay. You had to network to acquire mats for the grind and you had to play the market wards in order to sell shit or use YG to make gil to buy mats, and there just seemed like there was more to it. It was still a painful grind, but the process seemed more involved.

Now that everything is automated (such as market ward search and you dont need to do anything other than buy mats) and there is no need for doing anything other than spamming enter, they might as well automate that aspect too, I guess.