Crafting and Gathering need a QoL change asap.

[Lersayil]

Yes they can, it's called being self-sufficient. There is literally nothing stopping a single player (after the first couple of class quests) from doing this.

We could probably count on our hands the number of times we're actually REQUIRED to spend gil in this game... (airships at level 15 MSQ, ferries to/from Kugane/Gyr Abania)

Don't just think gil. There is a time / opportunity cost associated. If the game required everyone to experiment out optimal crafting rotations for whatever they do for themselves, it would be a major turn-off for a lot of people.

Eyeballing semi-optimal crafting rotations isnt hard, but few would want to invest the time / money to come up with the stat specific, point perfect rotations most people macro.

Personally I'd argue it would make the market situation worse if anything.