I rather shame because I had been reading into it and it seems like a good game to be engrossed in.
I myself is a PVE kind of player and I love the crafting aspect of it. I don't really like PVP but the way that you described how the crafting stations may decrease is worrisome.
It is a great game to be engrossed in and to be fair, leveling crafting takes a while before you run into said problems. I played a LOT. It's been worth the money for me and without a monthly subscription, I can come back any time after they implement some changes. It's just very frustrating at this point, because we're kinda inbetween the hype and long-term. This game needs full servers to keep these crafting stations going, but many players have left, so we'll need the server merges they are working on.
And I really do hope they'll do something about storage space 😅
Then you will (or already) love Albion Online.
I had several people mention that I should download that as I recently just stopped playing Ragnarok Next Generation (ROX) and Genshin impact as it was eating too much time.
I might finally take the plunge