It also may be because UO unlike other games also offers everyone to play whatever they want to play or to become or NOT to do those things. Therefore if you are happy with crafters templates maybe you are more in the creative mode of ye life instead of monster bashing endlessly or pvping.
*course if ya never DID those you may want to try it out some*
For myself I had that been there done it all mentality in UO. I was always making my chrs. TO fight TO defend themselves, to more or less play the *good guys* of justice killing the killers even back when we could collect heads for pay
kill a notorious red killer get bounty I was into all that...then I was in factions, then monster bashings and so on so forth felt I had done it all ........except...........pure defenseless crafter templates never made any purely defenseless crafter templates nope HAD to be felt I had to be able to KILL whomever was trying to kill my chrs. win some loose some but I was always the FIGHTER.
Bout 2004, I felt more creative than everything else I had done in UO for YEARS.....wanted something different *but* kinda more like the UO I had known so yeh......weirdly made defenseless crafter templates on SIEGE. I liked it.
UO does not mean we HAVE TO fight doom bosses or other monsters if we don't really feel we are into in any more *or ever* if you never were into it in UO no biggie...maybe ya never will be, same for pvp. *course if ya never tried any of that may want to try it, but if not UO permits one to even just fish for white pearls or own a tavern hosting player run events or TEA PARTIES. lol or yes just to craft.. serve the community that way or whatever way ya want to.
Another thing you can do with some chr. is just make one a *disposable* I have some they are the ones I label *walking deadmen*...they are the first to enter any new invasion to tour the hell develop team members put on us with new invasions......they tour DEAD ...go all over comically seeing what is new out there TO kill us, so that my other chrs. then know what is going ON out there that just got introduced in some story line invasion etc.
One can use those deadmen walking to explore any dungeon you have not visited in ages, dead or alive you are all over UO doing SOMETHING silly as it sounds and it often gives you some new calling in life sort of like some retreat of a dead hermit touring...it can give you some ideas maybe what type of chrs. TO make to work upon in the present for the future.
One can also make some chr. that you tell yourself until I GM or better this chrs. template I am not DONE yet with UO...ie your 'excuse' chr. to stay in UO a bit longer. I did that with a TAMER......... lol I can not leave UO per say till I get her to finally gain respect from her unicorn that's been sitting in the stables since ...publish 16 I am sooo not the tamer...but SHE remains my one Chesapeake chr. that is UNDONE thus my (excuse chr.) so EA gets my money till she IS a done template my last uo never achieved it yet challenge, to keep me in UO, can not exit till she is done training her taming and me unicorn respects me.... as it's owner and tamer. lol
for you and me!
