How will Endwalker make crafting more of a brain dead activity like Shadowbringers?

[Jojoya]

Also, I wouldn't try and dress up SE increasing accessibility to self sufficiency as a bad thing. "You can't give everyone a slice of the pie" is absolutely a greedy statement, because the implication is that when no one else has any pie, you can sell it to them at the price you and the rest decide.

I would probably add that no one is being given the slice. No one is automatically being handed a level 80 crafter with a full set of gear.

They've been given the option to take a slice if they want. Not all do and there's still gil to be made from those players.

There's also gil to be made from the players who take the slice then don't really eat it. My FC is filling up with crafters who do nothing but spam Coffee Biscuits. They aren't selling things they craft on the MB at all but all the leve income has got them buying from it more than they used to.