"However, for crafters up until patch 2.5, rather than the system allowing you to be any of them, to a large extent for more hardcore crafters it required you to be all of them."

So in a nutshell Specialization = casuals. Time to start leveling alts it would seem I have an idea, let's make alexander catered towards casuals as well! End game crafting is like End game raiding, not for everyone!