Workshops - getting 4 people in there to progress a tier is getting tedious

[Valleo]

As a member of a very small FC who has done 4 rounds of crafting 4-5 airship pieces at a time; it is incredibly tedious and adds absolutely nothing to the workshop experience. There are better ways to have everyone participate in workshop crafting, and forcing you to gather 3 other people to AFK while you press buttons is not one of them. It feels more like artificial gating because they couldn't (or didn't have time to) make actual content.

The most baffling part of this is the people that will come to defend it because they feel like you should do things with others in an MMO, so any kind gating is ok. Well, I agree with the idea that MMOs = socialization, but I don't ask 3 people to come and AFK while I do a dungeon.

Either give us something meaningful to do in a party of crafters, or get rid of the pointless restriction.