For the most part, this is game number 15 or so for me, crafted items, and the mats that go into them have always been inferior compared to grind rewards without a way to upgrade them. Having looked at the current crafting system for this game, it would need a massive overhaul, as well as a way to upgrade what you create…
Can we not test these things before we do them? It's not that hard, maybe not update every week, but instead test updates and deploy a functioning update less often? Maybe I'm trying to make it too simple :))
Please tell me that the average update/patch size isn't going to be 8 GB every time there's a new one, or I won't bother playing. Even JD isn't this bad on initial install.