>>96490504
>Explain this to me.
Two main reasons:
The good artifacts of the First Age that get wanked a lot are better than the shit you make in the Age of Sorrows. They're made by elders and are supposedly still relevant at that scale - in the lore, it is expected that the artifact 5 that the elder solar makes is going to be a big deal to him, and a decisive tool in his arsenal. With the craft rules as-written it's impossible to compete until the lategame, where because the artifacts have been scaled for the use of chargen characters the artifacts turn out to be mechanically useless.
The second reason is that downtime isn't guaranteed. Sorcery and artifice would outpace everything else if they had unlimited time and resources to work but they don't so they don't.