Lineage 2's was definitely far, far, far,grindier.

You think having to press "Standard Synthesis" for a minute or so is bad?

Imagine having to press your mouse button potentially hundreds - yes hundreds - of times to create a single item, between making sub-sub components, crafting those into sub-components, crafting those into components and then crafting those into the actual item.
Hmm. Last time I played Lineage II (sometime in 2004?) each step didn't take more than a few seconds (incidentially I was a dwarf artisan). Then again, that was during open beta. ^^ I just remember that raw materials were waaay more expensive than finished items back then...

Also, as far as I remember there was no separate leveling of crafting skills per se; you got the respective skills automatically as you leveled up your character. So there was no real "crafting grind".