The trick is when it encourages you to invest time and money into it when it knows full well it's going to roadblock you with zero guidance tens of levels later, failing to explain any of what you actually need to know within either the in-game tutorials or the quests provided - those quests being a part of the pyramid-scheme structure where each deceived crafter, after wasting their time and money, needs to justify it to themselves and thus resells items for those quests to other wannabe crafters - just as victims of a pyramid scheme must perpetuate it by finding new victims to recoup their own losses.