The absurd amount of randomness in runic crafting has always sucked.
The modest intensity minimum bump for the highest runics was nice but not enough to really reduce the amount of crap you can still end up with.
The medium runics now, especially the horned runic kit received a damn nice bump. I think they should raise the minimum on barbed kits, valorite hammers and heartwood fletchers kits to further limit the garbage made.