I gotta say, the way they refined from S1 to S2, and now S3 is the best thing I've seen in WoW of my entire 20 years playing. Everyone knows S1 was too slow, S2 was too fast. I think S3 will hit the mark.
Why though? Crafted items are already much weaker, starved for stones early on, and when you can afford to just let 250 rip you already have better items to upgrade. It just invalidates non-embellishment pieces altogether.
Cool, Blizzard coming in with the changes literally nobody wanted nor asked for. Only the most lost in the sauce Blizzard cultist could even possibly defend this inane change.
This change also affects us casual players that can't or won't run a raid weekly, don't participate in M+. It's already a huge hassle for my main, let alone alts. I simply don't have the time to farm so many different currencies and reps. Grumble.