I actually love crafting now, 2-star crafts are intense and very satisfying when you HQ knowing one mess up sets you back 12-16 million gil.

No the issue right now is gathering.
They did great with collectables, good system i hope they continue to use it and tune it. But favors are awful, just awful.

For instnace I finally crafted my weaver dreadnought yesterday, it took about 10 minutes to craft it after putting the materials all together.

Gathering the favor mats took two hours, that should not be a thing.