I figured that dust would have settled after 1.19 since you needed a battle class to get a personal chocobo anyway.

You can still get seals crafting/gathering and it's not that bad at all, although I think the rewards should be a little higher and you should be able to turn in materials in large quantities at once. If I have 60 rosewood branches to turn in I'd like to do it all at once instead of having to go through the turn-in process 20 times x_x