Family Name: Mennan
Region (NA/EU): EU
lifeskills do make profit, but you need lots of set up and upfront investment (silver AND Pearls), on top its not (in order to do good profits) a afk/semi afk hobby.
dont think about profits if you like to enjoy lifeskilling, you can get green numbers with little effort, but dont compare that with grinding.
They really need to review some of the prices so that the max price of an item is higher than the max price of its components. That doesn't mean it'll always be worth it to make something if the current price is fluctuating for other reasons, but at least it will make economic sense to crafts certain items to sell.