Quote Originally Posted by Niwashi View Post
Your basis for deciding that that concern was without merit was: "The difference between that and crafting literally nothing with that class is negligible."

In that assessment of crafting a simple item as being virtually the same as "crafting literally nothing", what you're really saying is that the entire challenge is really nothing, because that IS the challenge. The whole challenge is just to craft stuff, even if it's simple level 1 stuff. This disdain for simple challenges sounded a lot like concern over the challenge being too simple. After all, if you think the final step is too negligible to care about, do you care any more about the rest of steps?
I never made a statement, implicit or otherwise, as to the appropriateness of the difficulty of the challenge. I merely provided an assessment of the current state compared to the state the suggestion would bring about if implemented as it related to the concern of the person I was responding to.