It doesn't help that Shadowbringers has made the crafted gear barrier to entry much, much lower. I'm the laziest crafter known to man, I meld cheap if I meld at all, and even I was able to HQ Neo-Ishgardian with no major issue. Combined with crossworld marketeering, you're not just fighting the lowest price on your server, you're fighting the lowest price on the entire DC, and that almost always means you're fighting at least one person who's botting or utilizing some form of unrealistic labor.