-It doesn't really matter why it's pointless, but it has to be notified that it is, be it PotD or anything else

-The craft weapons for example have at lvl 68 NQ crafts still 3 flat damage less than Shire weapons, a very small amount of stats more, but as I recall the flat damage is more important.

-You don't need to keep using Shire gear, cause quests and dungeons will outgear you eventually, and your crafting will remain useless

-The solution of crafting every crafter together does not help the problem of there not being a point to lvl 51-59 and 61-69 gear recipes. and as I stated before, it's not impossible to craft HQ recipes while levelling, but it's not easy, you need to get HQ materials and the crafting class gear, which I'm all fine with, except for the part where it ends up then being at best the same strength as quest gear; where early the shire gear is a lot better and later dungeon gear still is.

Crafting feels like a disadvantage, untill the max lvl intervals.