"Eureka", but why?

[Remedi]

SE clearly planned for players to get the bulk of their Protean crystals by farming regular mobs (most likely, as a side benefit for earning exp), but Proteans flow in at such a pitiful trickle that this is simply not viable. Anemos crystals were supposed to be the "special" ones that you had rare opportunities to acquire.

I disagree with this notion, if they intended anemos crystals to be that rare there wouldn't have been an option to shard them into protean at all. To me the very fact that they added the option means that they expected you to have an overabundance of them.

Frankly speaking I expect pagos crystals (uf they'll be a thing) to be able to be sharded into protean crystals still, which frankly will be problematic for several reasons but as said this is just my impression nothing concrete