Honestly, Anyone who has had the misfortune of crafting anything endgame can attest to how incredibly annoying it is that a huge portion of the base materials need to be hand-crafted for no reason whatsoever. Take old level 50 Starred mats, that they are still gated behind single-crafts to a level 60 crafter makes no sense.

It is even more annoying when you guys keep adding recipes that use an absurd amount of them with no real bonus for having them HQed. Recipes like Furniture and Company crafting are the worst offenders.

I'm looking over at the materials to upgrade a single one of our four airships, and the list of mats that can not be quick-synthed is of 654. A freaking whole 654 materials that can not be quick-synthed and must be manually crafted is insane. Even if you divided this by four (The supposed amount of crafters, but let's be honest here: it's a one-man job) it still comes at over 150+ per person.

Furniture is no different, starred furniture often requiring over half the mats being hand-crafted for no benefit whatsoever. A Carbuncle Chronometer for example uses 6 hand-crafted materials, for a single synth that can't be HQ'd.

So, can we please stop forcing players to hand-craft materials that are often needed in-bulk for no reason whatsoever? The most elaborate part of crafting shouldn't be mindlessly clicking the same button over and over for 4 hours.