Quote Originally Posted by CookiesNCreams View Post

But, the endgame recipes currently aren’t anything like he described. So, I’m honestly confused as to when this will happen for endgame recipes. Or, if it’ll only apply to ishgard recipes.
Considering that Ishgard restoration was constantly refered to as "endgame content for crafters" it seems very likely he meant that, yes.
Despite being a mastercraft since 2.0 this seems like a good thing to me: Anyone who wants a crafting challenge - like you - will get one (you'll even get a leaderboard for them), but it wont affect the market to much, meaning that even non-crafters with less income will be able to afford crafted gear. Making regular crafting more difficult OR RNG-heavy would result in higher prices on the market, which would mean that a lot of people dont have access to that gear. And yes, I know its fun to sell items that took you 2 minutes to make for millions, did that often enough... but at the end of the day thats not really all that good for the game.
So this seems like a good compromisse to me: You get a crafting-challenge, you get to show off with that leaderboard, but any crafting thats relevant to the game in regards to the rest of the population stays at a level that is mostly RNG-free and can be achieved by anyone, if they wish so (...many actually still dont).