We are getting new recipes in 2.2, but alchemy is not being more any more efficient with their potions making Alchemy next to useless. Yoshi has said something very close to this and I am not looking it up, I believe it was in one of the Live Letters we got "3 months of good economy followed by 3 months of poor economy" 2.0 crafters had a lot to do, 2.1 economy nearly died with the release of CT which made getting gear for Coil a lot faster, so people when getting to 50 would unlock CT and get better gear than what could be crafted. Only the weapons you need for the relic sells for a decent price, and I haven't made very much gil off of Potions since they are practically useless. I gave a healer friend of mine a stack of 99 X-Ethers HQ for free because they aren't selling, and she already had a full stack of them from the month before because... they weren't selling. All the stat potions are a joke. Only Culinarian is useful, and even I have seen those markets plummet even more since everyone started to make food and flood the market with their food and undercut a lot of the food by almost 1-2k when the food was originally selling for 4-6k, now its like 2k.

So 2.2 we are getting more crafting, and when 2.3 comes, we will get nothing. Hence the 3 months of economy followed by 3 months of no economy.