Hi,
In my personal opinion, crafting is a good long term investment, and more so if you just got started. This because of 2 reasons:
- You can craft leveling gear with good stats (not perfect ones) so that you never have to worry about your gear while leveling and also level up your crafting as you do this.
- Once you hit the level cap you'll be able to craft a good and balanced set for yourself.
Bonus: once a new level cap is released, if you are fast enough to get max craft you can make quite a bunch of money if you are among the first crafters that get max stats. This isn't the case in the current cap because a lot of players already got their craft gears and a lot of players can craft 60 gear, so it's not much of a novelty.