Why is crafting so useless?

[Fendred]

I don't get why Yoshida is so worried about the top tier raiding FCs. You can't stop them from beating stuff faster than the designer intends because they've trained themselves to german suplex content into submission in record time. Plus it doesn't make much sense to draw attention to the less savory end game grind that characterizes the genre, either. One of the reasons hunts work is that people can distract themselves with other things while they are doing them. MMORPGs at end game are glorified online chat rooms after all. Running expert roulette on a daily basis is absolute torture because it requires a player's full attention every time they do it and we're doing the same thing on repeat. Even Alexander becomes that way after a while.