Crafting needs to be fun or needs to be automated.

[Seif]

Cooking - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I651...feature=relmfu

Botanist - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLaEU6MPE8E

( + w +

But wait, that'd actually be... FUN. Oh well we can only dream~

While I would love some actual gameplay to be had when playing a game let's be real here for a second.

We all know how this is going to go: SE is going to select the cheapest most easy way there is and cut everything out before making systems that would introduce new (or any) kind of gameplay into this process. They already hinted at "one button press crafting" ages ago when the new team was just starting out.


EDIT: Also in that above interview statement the short version of it is basically: "We're aware of the suck-y-ness and we're doing everything we can to sweep these broken systems under the rug instead of making something better! "