As has been mentioned, the root of the issue here is for those of us who are holding on to 'old' HQ items (+3) to use when crafting with exclusively HQ items has a guarantee (or very high probability) of a HQ result, a feature apparently 'coming soon'. Likewise, most crafters with any semblance of sense are holding on to their ALC and CUL ingredients indefinitely until those recipes and results are revamped.

Also, the point made that if item names were all changed from +1, +2, +3 to just HQ you'd have 3 different stacks of ingredients to transfer back and forth to your retainer is a bit silly. You'd be hard pressed to find someone so lazy that they wouldn't spend 5-10 minutes moving items to free up 1/3 of their inventory spots.