I miss the days of old where if you spent a summer leveling a craft class to cap, 100 of hours and ridiculously amount of in game money, you were set for the rest of your time on the mmo.

Endless money supply coming in.

Work turns into rewards. Atm there is no work with crafting and almost no reward as well. Even worse for gathering and I actually liked mining. Just no reason to do it anymore. Not mining for 50-100gil per hq ore.

Old School MMOs geting a DR. degree and making millions, New Age MMO everyone working a minimum wage job.