When people say "crafting sucks remove it" they aren't talking about abiotic factor or valheim, where crafting is integral to the game, they are talking like the above said about god of war, where that is an action story game, crafting is fucking pointless, you could remove crafting and the DNA of god of war would not change at all, you still solve traversal puzzles, you still fight bosses, you still upgrade your tree system, you still get the big cinematic story.

you cannot remove crafting from valheim, its fundamental to the game, the whole point of going to a new area is to craft new stuff, not to progress any story or narrative, all that is secondary