Leveling crafts is easy. Assuming you have some leves saved you can get a craft to lv 50 in less than a day.

I will admit that all these lockouts are annoying. It'll take weeks or months just to get af2 everything. I like crystal tower, but the rewards aren't worth trouble. And its really pointless to do it once you get the gear you want since they'll lock you out of loot untill weekly reset.