It take so long to make anything in Alc and need to be brought up to the way cooking is it take so much time to get anything done in Alc.

Being it does one at a time where cooking does batch at a time

I actually liked knowing how many mats to use before I had to replace (now it's repair) my cooking utensil.

You add mass cooking (mass alchemizing) to alchemy and the side products would be nerfed which IMO is the whole reason that makes alchemy interesting.