Not necessarily. It just means that when a crafter makes something and puts in on the trader, it might be half decent - because materials can't be wasted on crap, as materials are more time consuming to gather. It might actually be worth something. As opposed to right now where the trader is overflowing with a metric s**t ton of garbage gear. Same for raw mats - most are worthless. This might make more of them worth keeping and selling. Of course all of this will be moot if the crafted stuff is woefully inferior to the quest / khitai items.