Quote Originally Posted by UmJammerSully View Post
Selecting standard synthesis over and over again is engaging somehow? Whether I'm looking at the screen or not makes no difference, it's all "just pushing buttons". Not to mention I know exactly what my button pressing is doing for me, so I'd argue that I am playing anyways. If a blind person kicked my ass at Street Fighter, I wouldn't say "You're not even playing, you're just pushing buttons!", whatever that even means.

What are you getting at anyway? I can't help get this "If you are gonna craft, then you NEED TO CRAFT PROPERLY LIKE ME, DAMN IT!" vibe from these responses.
On the bolded part, definitely nothing of the sort. I just found it to be a curiosity.

But I guess part of the viewpoint in this discussion does have to do largely with a person's crafting style. I mean, even now there is much more that you can do than just push standard the whole way. The problem is, and always has been, that you can get by using the path of least resistance pretty much 100% of the time. So why not just do that?

They designed this great crafting system on paper, thinking it was complex and robust, but they inadvertently overlooked the fact that it was all too easy to spam a single button and skip over everything else they tried to weave in. In the end, nobody but a few us really learned all the nuances of the system since there wasn't any foreseeable benefit to doing so.