Honestly why does crafting NEED to be difficult? It was a bloated mess and a pruning/massive changes were bound to happen. Most MMO's treat it as a secondary activity, while I do love it's more player involved that say WoW's set and forget method. This has to be the only MMO I've ever played where crafting has it's own "high end raider" class/mentality sort of player.

By that I mean any sort of change is "mah game is unplayable!".