Well, I got into a bit of crafting since the market seemed to be a little better lately. 2 days later and half the markets are crashed and flooded by one seller. Quick lodestone search on the crafter tag and of course it's another character from a different world with nothing but 1 lv80 battle class, maxed DoH/L, no mounts or pets besides the basic MSQ ones, in an 11 person FC consisting of them and 10 low level bank alts that somehow is rank 4 on their entire server for activity.

Meanwhile, the exact same gathering bot I remember from 8 months ago who I caught twice in a broken mount/dismount loop is still there rotating timed nodes and extracting countless materia (which is completely worthless now).

Why even bother? They have literally handed crafting and gathering over to the bots. It's their content now.