Playing an expansion as current content has been a lacklustre MMO experience

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In brief, WoW's crafting requires less time (though the gap shrinks slightly for omni-leveling) and reaches a higher ilvl relative to current content (to slightly oversimplify, the value of crafting in WoW is raised/inflated by making use of drops from relevant content, allowing it to reach the ilvls of said content).

Ah man I almost forgot about this. In FF14, if you can consistently clear savage, then crafting becomes largely irrelevant outside of day 1 prog and consumables. Meanwhile in other games like WoW you can craft items that are equivalent or better then raid items, giving them an actual purpose.