So why are the crafter relics.. bad.

[Dikatis]

Who sits there and individually crafts each step with the hope that 'good quality' comes up during the quality part of the craft, which will save ONE STEP of the entire manual craft, when you can just press a macro and do something else for the 30-45 seconds the craft takes.

For macro crafting, its a complete downgrade, and if you are manually craafting, you already putting yourself at such a stupid disadvantage to other crafters.

For Expert Crafting it's extremely strong to have that bonus. While you can brute force it for Ishgard Restoration, you can't if you want things like the Otter Fountains. Hence sidegrade.

And let's be honest, under most circumstances the difference in stats won't be that noticeable except in extreme high-end crafting. At worst you take an extra step. Again, you're making a scene for nothing.