Personally, I like it. Why should it be easier? It's already ridiculously easy to level any of the gathering classes. If your running out there sitting in a certain spot and grinding only on the nodes, that is your option. But you have other options to speed it up should you choose. Also, gathering classes should NOT be as easy to level as a DoW/DoM class. If it were, I would not even bother with them and just buy everything from the market for 2-3 gil since everyone else would have them at 50 by now. Crafting for the most part would become a joke as material supply would overwhelm demand.

And the skills are what makes the gathering in this game more unique compared to the other 99% of games out there. Why do you want it to even more plain jane or simple than it already is?