Asking Yoshida to address crafting’s absurd easy difficulty...Live Letter?

[Nezerius]

So, let me get this straight, OP.

You're complaining about current crafting being way too easy. You're also asking for "Rewards should be high stat, exclusive, rewarding gear/tools" from the Restoration of Ishgard.
You realise that those kind of rewards would actually make crafting even easier for you, right? Are you expecting SE to balance crafting around those "high stat, exclusive, rewarding gear/tools"?

[CookiesNCreams]

So, let me get this straight, OP.

You're complaining about current crafting being way too easy. You're also asking for "Rewards should be high stat, exclusive, rewarding gear/tools" from the Restoration of Ishgard.
You realise that those kind of rewards would actually make crafting even easier for you, right? Are you expecting SE to balance crafting around those "high stat, exclusive, rewarding gear/tools"?

And do you realize Square Enix can simply make more challenging recipes even after you have received those gear pieces? Without high stat gear pieces, it doesn’t motivate many crafters to even do Ishgard as the compensation will be poor. Please don’t be so narrow minded, because not everything has to end at one destination. It can continue to keep progressing.

[Nezerius]

And do you realize Square Enix can simply make more challenging recipes even after you have received those gear pieces? Without high stat gear pieces, it doesn’t motivate many crafters to even do Ishgard as the compensation will be poor. Please don’t be so narrow minded, because not everything has to end at one destination. It can continue to keep progressing.

To what end would you be progressing? How far do you want your hardcore recipes to go?
It's very clear that you don't want to be rewarded with glamours, so what would these hardcore recipes even make? Do you just want to be able to near-infinitely be able to get better and better gear?
DoW/M gear wouldn't be exclusively tied to these hardcore recipes, neither would the DoH/L gear required to craft said DoW/M gear. If they did, most people would simply avoid the crafted DoW/M, since the effort would surpass the useability. If they'd make both current and hardcore recipes for the same DoW/M gear, how would you differentiate between the two?

Your hardcore recipes would be a niche, something for a small section of the playerbase, similar to big fishing being a niche for fishers.

It's easy to say "Make crafting more challenging" or "Please don't be so narrow minded", without actually coming up with any possible solutions. Can you elaborate on what you'd actually want, aside from "higher stats"?