My idea is simple, make crafting SS same time consuming as stealing was, then players would have nothing to whine about and i also believe it will be not any uninteded bug/expoilt. Just rational and easy to do crafting. Less time necessary for PVE feature and more time to use products of crafting. I believe this is a solution.
I can make a study of both ways (past stealing vs present crafting) if you would be interstested in numbers and facts about both.