Personally, I don't mind that much, I guess you could call me a non-hardcore player (maybe like 5-6hrs every other day?) but the changes seem wise, I understand that people don't want this game to become another average MMO, neither do I and I'm sure neither does Yoshi P, but when it comes down to it crafting is a pain, I don't want to spend my entire game time gathering all the materials for some rank 19 boots, I say hooray for these changes, and if people want difficult crafting save it for the higher ranks.