Everybody complains of how easier it has become to HQ (and maybe at endgame it's true), but as someone who only recently returned to the game and has to finish levelling crafts I'm pissed at how they removed all the cross-class skills, now making them high-ish level skills. It makes it so much harder and frustrating, since I can't even imagine trying to HQ on levels where you now have 0 of those skills.
I guess nobody cares because now levelling is so fast that people level without even actually crafting, but for me it's a very negative change.