Indeed the final crafting insult to injury is the fact that you get soo few exp when compared to DoW or DoL. DoL one can mine a node, and get 200-400 exp per few seconds. Basically every hit or every other hit depending on where you are and if you know what you're doing.

As DoW you get tons of chain xp in parties, and you get bonus exp per chains.

If there were chains in Crafting, it would be nice. If you got exp for every synth, like gathering, it would be nice. But the fact that it takes over a full minute to do a synth that will give you maybe 300-400 exp, that is just ridiculous.