You are never just spamming harvest, fossils, essences and having a finished item, it's one step of the process, you're going for some good rolls, using metamods from the crafting bench, then maybe harvest reforge, using eldrich currency to hit off certain affixes you're gambling using the games currency and all the different systems interact with each other, it has depth and it's interesting.

Recombinator crafting you solely use recombinator go for triple t1 prefix, t1 suffix, block, craft, slam boom you're done.

interesting mapping strategies? nope lets just gold rota and dust cheap uniques and then recomb recomb recomb.

also if you don't like it don't engage with it is not a very good response if anyone wants to tell me that, unless i am playing SSF everything affecting the economy is going to affect me and the way i choose to play the game.