I hate crafting as it is now, but I'm sort of disappointed too.

That's something that made this game interesting, the fact that you didn't ever have to fight monsters.. and with the introduction of housing (some time past 2.0?), you could seriously just work on DoH and DoL.

Maybe with the current way that crafting works, it would be better to start off with a DoW/DoM until crafting is made more interesting and that they then have more time to create an introduction for DoL/DoH (if you picked it first).