Not exactly.
The crafting system in FF11 (and not much difference in FF14) is that a crafter of higher level will almost always, and 99% always is pretty good, make more of the exact same product, a HQ product, and fail less of the product of anything a lower craft would make.
Therefore, competition leads everything you craft for XP to deflate because there was no dis-avantage to being a higher level crafter.
You're stupid if you think you're the only one who thinks "If I lose money now, I'll make it all back later". That's why you always loose money on xping crafts. You are competing with almost every single person on the server to level it up.
There's no ways around it. supply vs demand. The demand outstrip the supply of breaking even, because the inherent skill up is the variable.
And sadly that's a healthy economy. No amount of Whining is going to change that fact. The economy doesn't favor anyone, it's a force of nature. You not being able to invest enough money to make your own money back doesn't make it an unfair system.
It wouldn't have mattered if everything that's sellable was your skill up recipe. Like meat. No matter if you skill up on meat, and sell it on the AH. You would never be able to break even on meat recipe against the lvl 100 food crafters.
If you can't do it, gtfo and become a farmer. Having a tough life is how market economy works. For every winner, there has to be a loser. If there are no losers, there are no winners.
Now what is call government assistance, otherwise called wellfare, can be applied to make people's life easier. Though most of the time it's simply taking from the rich and give to the poor, assuming because the rich can afford to give up more. Which is fine, in theory and in practice.
in MMO we do that in many ways, such as making it harder, the higher you go, making alternatives, or the "poor man's huerk" ideal, to keep prices down, making things that are fairly distributed (rare/ex), etc. Reward for effort (CP items/BCNM/etc) was one novel way FF11 developed which was particularly effective.
Sadly those are tricks you do, when you have an efficient economy, not this FF14 economy.