Why is crafting so useless?

[Giantbane]

Crafters SHOULD be able to make decent battle gear near BiS. One way to have both raiders happy and crafters happy is to have i210 crafted gear that requires binding raid drops. These could then be used by Crafters in the raid to make binding i210 gear. Thats just one way to make crafting worthwhile, but we should still have decent tradable battle gear too.

I wish crafters could produce augments for high end raid gear that allows you to customize the secondary stats via materia.

Would be desirable enough to keep crafting relevant, but not required for raiding.