Also, I believe you aren’t understanding something very simple, OP. As someone who has crafted since 2.x Artisans, and has accumulated billions of Gil over the years, I can safely say that the lowering of prices has absolutely nothing to do with increased competition.

It has to do with the value of two things. Mats, and difficulty of said craft. As of 5.0, mats are extremely easy to get. There is no “challenge” to earning them compared to HW and ARR mats. Difficulty of crafting has been nerfed ever since the addition of Prudent Touch. So that devalues your time as a crafter, thus devaluing everything you make to around 200,000 gil or less. Mostly less. Whereas in ARR and HW, it was more like 600,000.

You are focusing your attention on the wrong thing. You should be complaining about the overall difficulty, not the amount of competition.