ilevel 70 crafted items mats bug?

[Sotek]

So... I'm bored and hate myself, so here is a (almost full) comparison;

To obtain a full set of Darklight for my Scholar, it costs me 5,385 Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy (AToP). I also need to have my Scholar in the 40~50 range to do dungeons for AToP. That is it.

To obtain a full set of iLv70 Crafted gear for my Scholar, it costs me 16,875 AToP, over three times the amount for Darklight, in order to obtain some of the synthesis materials.
I also need to have leveled Weaver, Goldsmithing and Carpentry all to 50, and have them adequately geared in order to even attempt the synthesis.
I require Botany and Miner at 50 in order to obtain Spruce Logs, Darksteel Ore and Crawler Cocoons. As well as Crystal Clusters, and any of the lower level materials required.
I am required to farm Garlean enemies for various materials. Garlean Rubber, Garlean Fiber, etc.
I am required to Spiritbind well over fifty pieces of gear (most likely high and low end, given how Materia nows works) in order to obtain the Materia to bind to this gear, that is of course if I get the Materia I want ever time instead Earth Resistance Materia.... Upon entering Forbidden Melds, that number can rise significantly as Materia is lost on possible failures. I'm of course required to mine the Carbonized Matter, too.

So... Three times the dungeons runs. An extra 5 classes to 50, some of which need proper gearing. Significant time sinks in harvesting, probably not such a time sink in farming Garleans, and what will probably amount to days of Spiritbinding gear for Materia. Oh, and lets hope I have a 100% HQ rate. Now, would someone care to compare the stats difference between Darklight and melded iLv70? Considering it takes well over three times the effort, it damn sure better be three times better than Darklight. Fuck, it might as well be better than Allagan/Relic gear.

No. Sorry Square, but this is ridiculously stupid. I did not level a craft so I could make one set of gear instead of obtaining three. Crafting already had plenty of other constraints in place, be it the time taken to gather everything, or the Gil spent. There was absolutely no reason for this asinine adjustment. Lower it to requiring 3 (overall costing 5,625 AToP) instead of 9, or ideally 2 (3,750 AToP), and do so soon. Then it is just under the cost of Darklight, which the 5 other points I've just listed should easily make up for.