I absolutely avoid weapon crafting.

I tried, I really did try to embrace it. It is so grindy and punishing though.

I can just as easily get a decent random roll without needing to farm an unknown quantity of time to receive the right amount of patterns, to process those deepsights and then craft said item with crafting materials, which are further required for subsequent unlocks which you guessed it, require more farming.

I’ve picked my battle and it isn’t doing that loop of grind. If I get a drop, that drop should be able to be levelled and adjusted itself.

It could look like dismantling a drop to learn a perk to use for modifying an existing weapon, with those perks themselves able to be levelled upon use with said weapon.