The amount of red scripts obtained from collectables was such a minor issue.

The main problem? To turn in a Red Rowena's Crafting Token for ONE crafting material, I also need to collect TWENTY gathering items obtainable only from favors. Favors are probably the root of the problem, offering an abysmal 0-4 gathering mats on average for 15 minutes of mind numbing gathering. Multiply that by 2-4 to have enough crafting mats to actually make something.

To spend a weeks amount of favors, someone has to spend over 11 hours a week doing absolutely nothing but running from node to node gathering. Perhaps start looking at that issue rather than something that will make almost almost no difference except saving maybe a hundred thousand gil for crafting scripts and 30 minutes for gathering scripts.