This is one of those cases where the vocal minority can screw everything up for the majority.
So what if it is easy to HQ gear once you max a couple professions to max. I put a lot of time into raising my professions and I enjoy being able to HQ the gear for my dps classes when I get to the level required. It's already bad enough when mining the max base % of HQ is 15% chance and we don't need that involved with the crafting portion.