User blog comment:Mrfangp72/Crafting Table III- Why the Removal?/@comment-153.107.97.152-20120823050912

It's more true to minecraft to have to use crafting recipes. The crafting table II would be alright if it was exorbitantly expensive, but it was cheap as woodchips. Also, it had a bunch of glitches that I understand the dev was unwilling to fix. As the goal of tekkit is pretty much to have the best stable SMP-usable modpack, unstable and unmaintained mods have to go.