Seriously.
This game was touted as actually having crafting and market be a viable progression path, and even a good one.
One could progress their character with crafted goods by crafting for themselves or buying others’ crafted goods, or by playing the playerdriven market like a merchant and then buying the gear from the players who went out and did Group PvE content or opened chests for fun- which was the other method of advancement.
If you’re going to reset the clock on 2 of the paths of progression… reset it on the 3rd one too.
(I’m sure they won’t mind having hundred of hours of progress wiped out overnight. They like doing it apparently.)