Quote Originally Posted by CookiesNCreams View Post
In your opinion, why do you believe easy crafting should stay?
In my opinion, it was never difficult to begin with. Much of the difficulty before is better described as tedium or gate keeping.

The novelty of the craft system wore out quite quickly for me, suffice to say I've played other games with far more engaging craft systems and economies. FF14 will forever just be WoW with extra steps.

As for why it should stay - I got to be there at 2.0 as a battleclass only. The strangehold crafting had on the market at the time was something that took them until the second half of Heavensward to really tune, between better system gil generation, and more equitable Combat <-> Crafter interaction.

I'm not even sure if right now we aren't in a stable situation due to the mass availability of raw materials. If there's an abundance of crafter bots as Kage says, there has to be at least as many if not more gatherer bots fueling the game right now. Take them out of the equation and I wonder how things would shake out.