What would you say to people who just wash their hands of the entire system right now? "I don't like any of this. I wish you had made Star Wars Galaxies."
TL;DRIt is too early to give up on crafting, since this is only the first step, and the published crafting guide lists many confidently planned future features.
I think it's pretty early to wipe your hands of it. We've got a long ways to go, both in crafting itself and the other features that are going to support crafting. It's too early to tell, I would say. This is absolutely just our first step out the door. And while it's really cool to see what players can already do with it, we're far from done.
We did release a crafting guide alongside, and the crafting guide had a wonderful section at the bottom, not just dedicated to everything that was in this one, but a look at a whole lot of things that are already in development for the future. It's not even everything. Anything that was like, "well, we might, whatever," we struck out. We stuck with a pretty short list of the things that we were pretty confident on, and it's an impressive list of stuff coming. If you haven't seen the crafting guide and checked out the section at the bottom of where crafting is going, I would suggest you check it out.