Mr. Yoshida, the Endgame Crafting System should become more Skill Based:

[Mitsubashi]

Gathering in 1.0 was skill based. Crafting in FFXIV has always been a number puzzle not a skill game. With 5.1 the math mini game of crafting is far easier than it has ever been. It's too easy. And the XP boosts for leveling have gone too far.

I suspect they were tasked with making Crafting more approachable for new players with significant influxes happening from WoW. They've gone way too far for me. I'm expecting to see an increasing number of end game crafters over the coming weeks. Across Chaos datacenter this last weekend there were approx double compared to the previous couple of weeks covering 5.1 release. Good news for gatherers and for adventurers who buy resources with tomestones. It'll be offset by Ishgard Restoration in the short term but the way things are balanced medium to long term it's extremely bad for crafting giving you a sense of lasting achievement.