Funny how the "solution" to requiring everyone to be an omni-crafter is to make it take as much time to gear one crafter at 60 as it took to gear all 8 at 50. Now you can put in omni-crafter levels of work for less than 10% the benefit!

If crafting is going to be this much of a brutal grind, there needs to be a point beyond glamour. If crafting is going to focus primarily on glamour and fluff items, then it needs to not be such a hardcore, brutal grind. Either way is fine, but the effort should match the reward.