I think the main reason I dislike crafting is that every item requires two types of things (and there's always a surplus of something leading to the annoying phone booths etc). A secondary reason is that the best strategy during crafting events is to wait until the end to craft but that makes it hard to enjoy the event from a decorating perspective.
Also, as someone who looks forward to events for things like fences, it's annoying that the fences aren't a game cash item (I am totally someone who easily spends 100K on fences when events happen and making fences a crafting thing means I can't do that).
(ngl, if the fences were 500 fertilizer each I probably would craft 16 fences rather than the SideshowBob welcome sign that's the kind of fence person I am but at 3000Fertilizer each it's not happening)