Crafting is an optional side activity, noone is required to do it if they don't want to.

It does require some QoL though, I agree. Personally I'd be happy if it used materials on my retainers and didn't require me to have them in my inventory. That's probably the biggest issue I have with the system. It's probably never going to happen since their back-end is crap, and something like that is probably not possible.

The job interdependence is probably my favorite aspect of it. Having to craft multiple items to make a final product is what differentiate this from other games. The mini game is fun, although it could be simplified a bit I think, there's too many abilities that are useless. I also dislike that 90% of the abilities are either shared or have an exact counterpart for each jobs, it would be more interesting if all jobs had different abilities and crafting with each was more "unique".

The last thing we need though is a one-click system like WoW. That's not even crafting.