Why is Crafting still in the game?

[Alistaire]

Yeah, then I'm still in the same boat. I'm still going to be required to run dungeons to get the tomestones. And unless the crafted gear is better than the gear you can get via myth tomes, then nothing has changed.

I don't get why the horrible attitude about this. Are you trying to play this without doing any of the content whatsoever, other than crafting?