I'd be very happy to see some consolidation of crafting abilities. I have four hotbars for them, currently VERY full. The worst part is that I only use a small handful of crafting actions but there are so damn many of them at this point I've basically just lost the will to try to pare them down and figure out which ones are useless. I'm just drowning in buttons, most of them useless.

As to the other thing, I don't mind necessarily being able to HQ things with NQ mats. I think that's a good reward for putting in the time to perfect your gear and melds. I don't necessarily buy that someone can do that with no overmeld above grade 4, vendor food, no syrup.. that claim seems fishy to me just because of the stats I needed in order to make that happen. But someone who has taken the time and effort to do their melds.. sure.