I always appreciate a good discussion, but most if not all of your questions are rhetorical, save for the comment on how long it takes to Craft a Combat piece versus it's actual usefulness by the time you can complete it. Let's run a parallel to the i110 Crafted gear and FCoB, shall we?

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They added melds to raid gear? So I can spend all this time and money into making myself the best to meld items that are by far superior than what I can make. Melds use level requirements and won't be requiring this 170+ gear ive attained. I've blew up well over 1000 materia as a crafter, why should I look forward to more melding, to gear that I haven't even crafted. Why should an fc invest in their crafter? Why do they need one? They're pretty useless as of right now, gg.

"More powerful" right now it's way weaker, like a joke, why did you even show up kinda weak... does more powerful mean stronger but still below? IMO anything less than equal is unfair
Crafted items are stronger than Poetic or Dreadwyrm? So I can spend all this time and energy farming FCoB for gear that can't beat what someone can Craft in 2 minutes. That takes no actual Combat skill and doesn't require any work to gear up. I've wasted well over 1000 food+pots as a raider, why should I even try to Progress when I won't get anything better than what I can Craft? Why should I join my FC static? Why do we need one? It's pretty pointless as of right now, gg.

"Raid gear always BIS" right now half my BIS is Crafted gear and I can practically clear FCoB in a week, like a joke, why did they even make Raid gear this weak.... does BIS mean BIS until you can afford the Crafted gear? IMO anything being better than Raid gear is unfair.

I share your enthusiasm for Crafting, I really do, and I want the gear to be stronger than it is now (Or at least easier to obtain out the door) but what I DON'T want is another situation where beating the Crafting Endgame means you automatically beat half of the Combat Endgame at the same time.