Catalysts are ment to be cheap and plentiful, it was a bit too much having them be the cockblock in terms of cost for materia, especially for the lower levels. While I agree that having to take fingerprint of the gods on/off is inconvenient, I'd rather they made it one of those passive traits and just make catalysts a random extra item, a la dark matter.

And on the subject, it would be nice if they open up catalysts to all gathering areas, instead of 4 per DoL class.