...That "paradise" mentioned sounds like a M-18+ rating the way it's stated.

I think they could do the crafting/gathering in VR. Have it so that your inventory is set out on a blanket, like a picnic, while you're crafting, or have special benches in guild halls/personal(or FC) housing that have ingredients laid out(probably just the ones you need to craft if they are in your inventory, otherwise there is a blank spot where the missing ingredient goes).

Gathering, well, that would be easy enough to do considering what there currently is out there for VR stuff, just incorporate it(hell, take the FFXV fishing one and reskin it for FFXIV fishing!!!) and do the botanist and miner stuff.