It's funny about how people want their own opinion to be the one and only absolute rule in the galaxy. Fact: You don't like to craft but someone else does. There are MMORPGs out there that are dedicated to crafting, some even has only crafting. Some guy on Entropia Universe sold his asteroid and the facilities within it for $650,000 total (which is 100% legal in that game) and is one of that game celebrity, not because he killed some big fat boss. EVE has almost everything player crafted, most sand-box games do. So no, statement like nobody want to become a blacksmith, epic or not, is absolutely false. FFXIV isn't a sand-box game, but doesn't mean it has to be 100% against crafting either. Compromise, make NM drop both direct loot and material. If someone is unhappy with compromise, then they will be unhappy with anything and everything. You are not the absolute being, get over it.