What is wrong with reclaim?

[Squand]

If this is how it's supposed to work - with the same players getting shafted over and over with no end in sight..."In fact, I generally don't get to 10 tries."

Your results are as expected for a small sample size. Your desire for gratification is misplaced. A friend of mine botched 8 reclaims in a row. 0 tears shed, because that's how math works. And over the course of all her crafting she'll make those botches back.

If the risk is too psychologically upsetting, just NQ the item.

You will make 100s of millions of gil crafting and selling, blowing up 10-20 out of 100 tries, is the same cost of business we all have. If the RNG doesn't hit you in reclaim it will hit you somewhere else. It evens out. We are all being treated fairly. Sometimes monsters deal nothing but crit and blow up a raid, this is the same thing. It's a pay to play system. You have to do things over and over to progress.