I’ll never understand the hype. If the game doesn’t want me to play, I won’t. It’s that simple. The only reason why the crafting system is like it is, is that the devs get away with it.
Imagine they release rank 14 destroyers, and after 1 month only 5 people on the server have one.
Yeah, crafting requirements (in time units) would drop really fast. It’s not in their interest to release something that nobody uses.
As long as I see “X has crafted Y” in chat every 5 minutes, nothing will change. Your power is in your actions, not in your complaints.
I still love looking through the immediate combat logs and all of the ship/weapon/module names. I really wish the in-game combat logs still showed this.