The changes will give more control and communication about how to increase it. More diverse ways (instead of farming Myrk) to increase it.
The people that think crafting is dead, its only dead if you never want to spend a second playing endgame content. You can still craft gs600 gear, it just wont work as 600 gear until you actually play and increase your watermark. Since there will be numerous ways to increase it, just play.
Yeah if you want to craft 24/7 and do nothing else, this is shit. They’re making it so you cant circumvent the endgame. I don’t feel like that is a bad thing though.
And I’m tired of all the people screaming outrage every time the developers change a system. The system for HWM now is not great, they’re working to make a change. Stop seeing every change as an opportunity to scream murder.