Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone!
Not sure if anyone else noticed this or I am mistaken, but I think crafting experience is broken.
I always have a lot of crafting materials, therefore I always lvl something up while lvling an alt. NOT to lvl the alt character itself, I despise that method and the people doing that. I do crafting because it further adds to the character, being able to craft own armor, weps etc. Even though it is bad and broken and worthless, I still do it.
And it also helped me to gain a few lvls with my fresh character.
But as of today:
I rolled a guardian, picked up armorsmith and started doing some crafting to have armor for lvl 10. Had a crafting booster also. I usually start with doing like 100 Jute scraps and 100 Bronze Ingot.
In the past it would have leveled me to like crafting lvl 50, and the character one lvl up at the minimum. I continued doing crafting and I was still the same lvl and my crafting lvl 18. 18!!!!
Again: I hate crafting as a way of lvling, it was never my intention, but crafting as it is seemed totally useless for other reasons, but not it has been made even harder to lvl? The amount of materials needed would be impossible to hoard.
Tl;DR:
Crafting experience underwent some changed that we do not know about? Anyone else noticed something similar? If not, try it please!

Crafting shouldnt give you exp in the first place.Bad game design.