I thought this was silly (though still a good idea), until you mentioned the comic relief aspect. Now I love it. Failing a synth is more frustrating than dying at this point, and if I saw my character rage on his work bench, at least I'd get a laugh and go back to synthing. I know it's a bad sign that when I go to do all my local leves, I turn on a movie and spam Standard Synthesis. Too often I've tried my best to do a synth only to have it repeatedly fail, and then spamming standard does it just fine.

I think that goes to another problem (and maybe this is just me) but synthesis results seem too random. I'm sure there are other connections, like moon phase, the direction I'm facing, whether I'm sitting upright in my chair while playing or slouching, etc., but I thought that was stupid in XI and don't approve of it any more in XIV.

Anyway, ragequit synth would be amazing.