I am every discipline, and I can tell you for a fact that gatherers and crafters don't give a quarter **** about stats compared to what battlecrafts will pay.
You'd better come at me with more than freaking control+2 for me to pay you ANYTHING for that garbage as a crafter. Same goes for gathering. 10 craftsmanship, magic craftsmanship, and control mean NOTHING. 10 gathering output and control means NOTHING.
The impotent battle system that matsui is redesigning...it actually is the system for EVERYTHING in the game. Every system is that impotent.
Wake me up when the gathering materia has Node hit+1. Enhances rare item presense. Enhances quality of materials gathered. Until then, I'm not paying anything for that materia.
Similarly for crafting. I'm not paying anything for lame INT MND PIE DEX STR VIT materia, or even control, craft, or mcraft materia. I would only be interested in enhances chance of HQ (not enhances quality gain, I don't give a **** about 15 quality points), durability loss -10%, or doubles quality gains, doubles durability loss.
Otherwise I'm going to offer you a whole lot of meh as a crafter and gatherer for your orb.
If you try to sell me your craftsmanship+6 materia for 8 million gil because it's the HQ of a craftsmanship+4 materia, I'm just gonna laugh. That may matter for attack in the new Matsui battle arena, but that's not even a bean i the crafting world, let alone a hill of ones.