DoW/DoM gear could sell if the ilvl difference was not abysmal from ESO gear and mats were not so ridiculous to get; especially for those that are hardcore raiders since ilvl is not all that matters. For reference, the day Lucrezia downed A1 Savage, I checked on Lodestone and some players had crafted accessories with overmelding. I agree that a lot of people won't buy it, but some will, I sold a lot of ilvl110 gear before HW. They could have added more glamour pieces or whatever, but there's no recipes worth so much grinding, that's the point.

They made crafting inaccessible and pointless. You spend gil on mats to craft collectables, to get scrips, to change for tokens, to change for gear, to be able to craft exactly same looking gear with better stats, that is worth nothing cause the most difficulty recipes is the gear itself.