The act of crafting an item is fun, as it has always been, but the current system is total garbage. OP, you contradict yourself by saying you enjoy both the act of crafting and only crafting 2-3 items a week.

The vast majority of the crafting community hates the system, so Square will listen to us rather than those who amazingly somehow like it. Eventually this system will disappear entirely, assuming Square listens to the general consensus of the crafting community.