I didn't bother with crafting before for two reasons.

1. You couldn't craft anything all that good (Mark XII for example)

2. You needed to spend dilithium, and I have better things to use that on than stuff that I can get for free from missions and etc.

Now this new crafting system, as I said, looks like its in early alpha, but from what I see so far I don't think I'll bother with it for four reasons.

1. You couldn't craft anything all that good (You can get Mark XII, but its pretty much the same as stuff you can get from drops, or in Mark XI form, and the difference its worth it in my opinion. This might change.)

2. You needed to spend dilithium, and I have better things to use that on than stuff that I can get rough equivalents for free or off the exchange.

3. You do not feed in items and get out exactly what you want. You feed in items and dilithium and get a change for what you want, like a Mark XII very rare. It will be Mark XII, but it could be uncommon, rare, or very rare. And I don't feel like gambling with my dilithium. Same way I don't like gambling with my zen on lock boxes.

4. It takes way to long, both to level up your crafting to the end game stuff, and to click, click, click. As with one, this might change.

Also, they have messed around with the doffing system, since crafting is based on doffing, but I hope that the doff system gets back all the functions it had before at least. And they have removed the exploration clusters, replacing them with doff interaction points. More news is in the official forums and Tribble patch notes, but yeah. Not many people seem that happy, besides the cryptic fans.