I have no problem with BiS crafted gear as long its bound to the crafter. We are commiting alot of time into crafting instead of raiding, so crafting should also grant us gear equal to raiding. The scrip system would have been perfect to lock the gear behind it, so we wont craft it faster than raiders can aquire their sets.

The current system right now seems to have a supply chain for future recipes in mind.

I predict the future crafting patch will be like this:

Only a geared gatherer who got themself red scrip gear will be able to farm the new nodes.
So crafters will be reliant on those gatherers because they used their gatherer scrips for favors instead of gathering gear.

This way SE will limit the self-sufficiency and force trading onto us.