I could see it being a bit of a grind from 51-55ish due to so many of the mats coming from timed nodes, but that complaint went away with the addition of moogle quests. Hell it was mitigated with levequests as it was in ARR. Crafting is only had painful as you want to make it especially this late in an expansion's cycle and can even be done passively as Canadane said.

And as for making it a one-click process: sorry no that's actually stupid and boring and thank god they made it its own form of mini-game and leveling process and also isn't anything close to XI's crafting system. And just in case, I'm not a die-hard crafter defending the only thing I do, I always max out every combat class first and usually drag my butt on getting crafters maxed til .2 or .3 in an expansion.