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The idea that because something is "crafted" it should be "better" than anything else in the game is one that I don't think is defensible. It's there, if you want it; if not, the game won't penalize you for ignoring it. At any rate, I think the game deliberately doesn't want players expending a lot of time on the crafting option, imo.
I would completely agree with that if you could craft without spending precious skill points to do it. IMO if it is going to cost you to be able to craft the best things you can (5+ in Crafting/Blacksmithing/etc.) then by golly it better be some good stuff. Otherwise all those skill points should have been used on something else. If crafting was something you could just do ... then sure why not have it average grade stuff.
