I see nothing wrong with crafting, some people just hate crafting in all mmos. I think to make the majority happy they would have to make it like WoW. Easy to do, easy to level, and fast. (aka eliminate a mass part of the grind of leveling the craft). But this will also destroy the economy, with crafting I see it as something you do to make money in the game making it too "Fun" will destroy the whole purpose of doing it.

Crafting in my opinion is something they should not change at all fundamentally SE pretty much hit crafting on the head of what it should be. They need to streamline the UI and remove the downtime from that, but keep everything else mainly the same.

If they do anything they need to add crafting into something like defending(Re-enforcing)/rebuilding the hamlets after an attack or something.