This is the thing - On Legacy worlds it's a horrible situation because you can have say an Electrum Ingot that costs 1.2k to buy then say an HQ Zircon for 300gil, why are Electrum Circlet (Zircon) 70 gil to buy? People who say "there's no problems just level craft/gather!" Aren't on Legacy worlds majority of the time, where the issue is most present.

Yes you can make money with Gathering and Crafting, but not if people destroy every single market the second you try to make said money - 99% of the time it's people who came into ARR with more than enough gil that are ruining markets just to push off skill up items faster or to drop the price low enough to make everything made with said items also worth nothing. This is an issue on Legacy worlds more than it is on newer worlds.