During the live letter it seemed Yoshi P seems ambivalent about adding an NPC that melds materia (advanced melding excluded). His reasons against is that it means less player interaction in an MMO.

Personally I am on the fence on this since I have no problem shouting at the FC wards and/or Iddlyshire for anyone to meld my materia for free; therefore a melding PC would not make such a great difference for me- perhaps some added convenience.
So what do you think? Just add it for convenience and for players that just don’t want to interact at all?