100% agree recipes, styles etc should be account wide.
The achievement AWAs took something away from the game, but now its done, do it properly and do recipes, motifs etc. Its just a nuisance accidentally learning some on my other characters. I have a main who learns all the styles, recipes etc. One is enough.
Well if one is enough then you don't need to do it on the others, do you? So there's no problem for those with a main or sole crafter, while automatically applying that character's progression to every other character on an account does create a problem for those who do like to do these things more than once. As you say, AwAs took something away from the game, so let's not call for other things to be taken away too.