Honestly? I find the crafting/gathering community to be a lot nicer than the combat community. Because crafting/gathering is all solo content, no one is robbing anyone else of anything, and everything is generally chill.

Hell, I was helping an FC mate work on gearing their Culinarian. She had a Lv40 off-hand. I was like "Hold on, you can't craft Sauteed Coeurl with that." and I crafted her, with my own mats, a Militia Culinary Knife.

If I were rich enough to help random players like that with crafting/gathering by supplying them with gear, I absolutely would! Unfortunately, I'm not. T_T

However, I never once charge someone if they need something made and provide the necessary materials unless they want me to make more than 10 of a single item and I can't quick synth or it has to be HQ.