I have no issue with motifs being purchasable for crowns. I hsve no issue with crowns being sold for in game gold. What I do hsve an isdue with is fresh motifs being gifted.
As someone who's main income is farming DLC dungeon motifs, it's pretty upsetting seeing the new Fang Lair and Scalecaller motifs available in the store the same day they become available to farmers. When the bloodroot motifs became farmable, they sold in trader for 80k-200k. But with the addition of crown gifting with the average crown-gold conversion of 100g/crown, people are paying only 600k for the whole Fang/Scale book, where realisticly if they weren't in the store the trader price would be close to 1mil. Judging by the upcoming Weklynar farm, those motifs would sell for quite a price, except it's been datamined they will be in the crown store so hopefully it will be a while till that happens.
My proposal to ZOS is simple, give us a whole update (or longer) to farm and sell these motifs before you add them into the crown store. Just like you did with Mazzatun, Silken Ring, Bloodforge, Dreadhorn, Dro-Mathra etc.