What is wrong with reclaim?

[Waeksyn]

If you are using reclaim enough to get an accurate gauge of it's actual success/fail rate (hundreds/thousands of times), then you are doing something wrong at your crafting.

Well, not sure what you mean here. How do you craft HQ 4 star? As example, I just crafted up my PLD accessories (all 5). They each require 3 Platinum Ingot as an input to the final craft. These are 4 star (568/5783), as are the final crafts. Reclaim was essential to get all the 15 HQ ingots I needed. HQ'ing 4 star is easy if you have HQ mats - still easy but a bit of a grind if those mats are also 4 star.

Now, I didn't use reclaim enough to be statistically significant but that is only because I wasn't crafting tons of stuff (such as to sell).

It's all RNG. While I hate failing reclaim, I hate NQ'ing from 90% even more.