You don't need to be a no lifer to be a competitive crafter in this game and that's the point we're making. "No life hardcore" crafters aren't actually getting anything more casual crafters are getting right now.

1.) Leveling through Shadowbringers requires almost no effort at all, especially with the Crystalline Mean; on three of my crafters I only had to do maybe 3 leves because of the Mean deliveries. If it's important to you to be one of the first max level crafters, then you have to prioritize it over MSQ. Casual crafters can do this. Casual crafters could have easily been stockpiling materia since Heavensward just by doing their weekly deliveries. You can even buy materia 7s with scrips now.

2.) It's been a month since early access, if you wanted to be ready for Savage crafts to be released and you aren't by now, whose fault is this really? Again, leveling through Shadowbringers is very simple. I'm still in my gear from the end of Stormblood and I gather all the materials for leves myself and I'm still done with leveling a craft in a few hours because it takes like 10 leves total.

3.) Crafters are not the only people in this game who earn gil. Plenty of people out there are wealthy who don't touch crafting. Make use of the currency you can obtain from battle content. I have a friend who makes a ton of gil just buying Grade 3 Thanalan Topsoil with his poetics. And even casual crafters can make a ton of money off of simple crafts. You know what I make the bulk of my gil from? Furnishings...and not even high level furnishings. I mean stuff like Wall Planters and Lalafellin Stepstools.

The fact of the matter is that there is always going to be a tradeoff in this game. If crafting is important to you, prioritize it. If it's not as important to you, then why do you expect to be rewarded on the same level? A lot of people default to the "well I have a life" argument, but...I'd wager everybody in this thread has work, classes, a family, you know, a life. But we've elected to prioritize our crafting. Because I focus on crafting, I know that my astrologian is undergeared and I won't be able to do savage. I don't expect to get savage gear because of that.