The massive buff to Innovation, the removal of the 3000 Control buff cap, as well as the change to the difficulty penalty for doing higher level recipes (which is what starred recipes are) and the reduction of quality requirements across the board will likely make crafting significantly easier than before. Ingenuity wasn't removed so much as its underlying reason for existing was nerfed (lowering recipe levels) and its effects rolled into Innovation/Veneration. Just more simplifying of the crafting system, for better or worse.