Redo the Crafting system.

[Solarra]

IMO, the one size fits all crafting design isn’t working well. Gearing and leveling aside, no matter how they rebalance and simplify crafting mechanics, it’s still too complicated for most players who really don’t care about learning the system. The end result is a niche crafting scene that is far too small for the developers pay attention to.

If you don't like FFXIV crafting and your friends don't like it, it's very easy to come away with the impression that the vast majority of players dislike it.
In my experience, crafters tend to gravitate to companies where there are people who share their interest. Our FC has a high proportion of crafters and new players tend to pick crafting up automatically, probably because there is so much of it going on.
Certainly it's a niche activity, but I think the niche is much larger than non-crafters might imagine. Even on a tiny server like Zodiark, you'll see crafters in every major city and also in Idyllshire, MorDhona and the Beast-tribe centres pretty much at any time of day. The huge number of online resources also suggests that there is a lot of people crafting.

The main problem with 'Re-doing' crafting to suit the people who don't like it, is that it's going to upset a huge number of people who do, which is what happened when they introduced Specialisation in HW. Personally, I like the system we have and I'm hoping SB doesn't bring any drastic changes.

OP - If FFXIV crafting isn't for you, then it's not really going to impact your character very much if you don't do it. We are about to enter the second expansion, asking for major changes to a system that a lot of other people are engaged with and enjoying, especially at such a late point in the game's development, seems unreasonable to me.