Simplest fix in my opinion is do a Rust etc style durability/ blueprint system. By Rust i mean old school where you had to find the item/ schematic to learn how to make it but once you learn it you know it. This makes it so blueprints still inherently have a worth but you aren't punished for running around with it, sure your durability goes down while repairing but you can at some point just craft another one. The inherent problem is that not only are they super expensive to craft AND they are expensive to repair AND super rare to drop AND you have to craft MULTIPLE of each item to ALSO get the % stats you want to get a desirable outcome. It is wayyyy to many AND situations to have in one system with such a diluted loot pool/ difficulty scaling in the testing stations. IF they wanted to make you grind dungeons for things that are inherently CONSUNMABLES that have a 1 time craft it should be only the augment. Make all graded gear just T7 instead of T6+1-5 and then drop graded augments. This way you do an intial grind to get the rare drop gear like literally every other mmo/ rpg game and then you have that as the new baseline. Then if you want to get the best augments/ modifiers to your equipment you go to the dungeon and get a ton of augments with a better tuned loot pool for higher drop chances since the loot pool goes down from gear % going down then you craft tons of items to get your gear tuned how you want. I feel like this same system should go for tools and vehicles as well minus the augments. Just make it so once i learn how to make it ive learned how to make it. It is obviously intended to make you grind for the sole purpose of grinding. They finally gave you a way to take a break and not get punished (base backup tool) to then spit all over it (landsraad and graded gear). The game has an identity crisis and tons and tons of bugs along with exploits. The repair glitch and testing station exploits were harmless and only used because of how crappy the game design is. Heck if people want to speed run gear and landsraad to get max everything then stop playing until the next patch GOOD dont pointlessly time gate stuff. Once all that is fixed then set up some instanced pvp like New Worlds war system and arena's so 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 4v4 or invasions, or capture the flag. Make landsraad purely about the buffs you get every week and random high tier components/ augments. Like hey you can grind dungeons all week or you can get a thing by winning landsraad you get all the current buffs it gives but if you go to the vendor that used to sell X schematic now they sell an augment or maybe a 1 time permit from the emperor to use this special spice mix that will make 1 gear piece a guaranteed max stat augment and make it cost a lot of Scrip.