I actually like the crafting mats (ok, just potash, animal fat, hardened sap, and coke) and until this update I merely viewed getting level 70 armor as ~1/3 of a crafting mat. Now, of course, level 70 stuff is dysenthesis fodder and much more valuable than ...what would it be....~7% of the materials for a level 70 piece of gear (a single potash or the like)?

I'm all for moving them elsewhere. Hell, give level 50 MIN/BOT things to gather that people actually want! Currently they each have clusters and 2 items each that are useful enough to bother with.