Desynth is when I lost faith in crafting entirely. We keep getting more RNG based grinds instead of actual content. Ixal dailies are the exception, but those had to be accessible so non-crafters wouldn't be locked out of the last beast tribe. SE seems to think crafters actually want longer grinds and more RNG, but I keep seeing more friends give up crafting with each major addition.

I personally gave up at the master 2 books and I'm glad for it. That's when the time investment and RNG made crafting suck more fun out of the game for me than it added. After hearing they wanted to make crafting more accessible I hoped to get back into it because it was fun before the stupid grind, but now it's worse than ever. That makes me sad. I want to enjoy crafting with my friends, not have it locked away to all but the most hardcore players. For every one person posting in this forum, there are a dozen who take one look at the gaping maw of the crafting ouroboros and run in the opposite direction.