Wouldn't it be awesome if you could re-craft gear and the stats would continue to go up each time you re-crafted it? The maximum potential of the gear would only be limited by the number of times you click the re-craft button. In fact, it should be set up so that every time you re-craft the gear on one character it should make the gear for all your characters more powerful. Wouldn't that be a great idea?
Yeah, champion points weren't such a great idea either.