Quote Originally Posted by Nalien View Post
I think they mean more in the sense that you cannot reliably HQ without access to the majority of the cross-class skills, which you're only going to have by leveling the majority of the crafts. That's the biggest problem with crafting in this game, and the Specialist system didn't really do anything about it (despite SE claiming it would). If you want to be a good Weaver, you have to level everything else to get those cross-class skills.
Basically this.

It would have been fine for me if Omnicrafting made crafting easier. Lowered the amount CP is used for skills, things like that. But as Nalien stated, you cannot reliably make HQ anything without those cross-class abilities.