No, now we HAVE to grind two or three mats hundreds of times for 0 xp so that we fill our inventories will unstackable garbage for XP that we will have to vendor one piece at a time because no one will ever buy it. They are removing all the grinding recipes and making the regular recipes require advancementless grinding.
There we go, I fixed it for you. Seriously, doomsaying is not going to help anything. The game will not collapse. You'll still rank up.