Whether you like it or not (and it is a perfectly valid opinion) crafters ARE classes. It is a fundamental design of the game, and one the (few) things that is unique and not so game breaking it requires a complete rework. IMO, if SE is smart, they will keep it that way. That said, they definitely need to make adjustments to crafting to balance it and expand on the ways that crafters get SP - net necessarily increase or decrease it, but give them the variety that DoM/DoW has (behest, leves, grind, NMs, etc.) and then balance from there.