Any mini game to make crafting more interesting will just end up being the same boring repetitiveness that we have right now, simply because doing the same thing 1000000 times is going to get old no matter what you do. Same thing grinding the same mobs (or levs) over and over. It gets old. The difference is other games have other things to do inbetween the tedium to distract from how boring it can be. This game has nothing like that.

They're in the right direction doing things like daily craft quests, if only they were higher than rank 10. Probably once that's fleshed out you could get 10-20k a day into a rank. Anything to break up the tedium of leveling.