They are taking the easy road out with the removal of parts. There are a ton of them in the game and almost every single one is set at a crafting rank that is at least 10 higher than it should be. Instead of going into the data and realigning them, they simply chose to get rid of them. They've done this same crap before, too. I can understand if they are going for the quick fix now and plan to do more changes in the future, but somehow I doubt that.

Same can be said with removal of sub crafts. The problem with this concept was that some crafts required way too many of them and at too high levels (Armorer, I'm looking at you). It should not be removed completely though, but at least they claim they have plans for this in the future.

Not requiring facilities seems kind of pointless now, 1.19 is supposed to bring in airships to make city travel very easy, the whole point of facilities being annoying was that it cost us Anima to get higher than common support.

I really hope that this is not the end of the adjustments they have planned for crafting for 1.19 (I'm not talking about the materia system, that is not an adjustment, that is a new system). The crafting mini game needs A LOT more work than any other facet of the entire system.