Like red scrip was the problem...

[WellFooled]

All this does is allow more people to get to the point where the real problems start occurring.

This changes almost nothing. You're just hitting the impossible roadblock even sooner. That's it.

I see what you're saying. Crafting/gathering obviously has its problems. Getting the BiS gear in particular looks like one giant headache, but why be against a change that helps, even a little bit?