The new crafting/gathering looks awesome! You don't have to constantly tab to your web browser to search for recipes, you can chain exp on gathering, and DoH/DoL skills use mana so you're not sitting around doing nothing with your hp/mp. plus you don't have to cycle through a list of your abilities to use one, you can set them to hotkeys.

I don't see where not having to use google and not having to cycle through pages of items/abilities = less skill. It just means less wasted time slogging through a counter-intuitive UI.