As a crafter gathering shards has become annoying and mundane. Is there any way to obtain shards outside of gathering? Leves are helpful but the type of shards and quantity is not consistent

Coil progress lockout is forcing people to form static groups. This in turn forces players not in groups to participate. This was an issue in the original coil and now an issue in the second coil. Players who are not in active FC or in static groups are forced to skip couil altogether. Is anything being done to make the coils a lot more accessible?