Gooooood riddance!

I suppose it's too early to really celebrate, since they could just be shuffling the old recipes off of the Specialist-only flag, and putting the new ones on it, but it's equally likely that they've decided to do away with that awful, awful system for good and replace it with the Craftsmanship/Control bonuses to the specialist souls.

Still, even if they hadn't, the biggest potential danger to the game's economy Specialist-only recipes posed was that aging recipes would start getting more expensive as time went by, due to there not being enough Specialists on smaller servers to properly serve that market. So even if they haven't quite learned, they've at least figured out how to mitigate the effect.