I have found lately, that manually cracking crystals consumes a lot of time, which I could be using to actually play the game rather than crack the crystals, which also by the way bugs out too often as "full inventory" even though you have just transferred all the items from crackers back to console.

I love the AA mod, it does help to spend less time on things and lets the player to play the game. 

But ever since I have sorted my new greenhouse, I have a plenty of food for my gachas, which I have out right now 18 of them because I need the material for saddles etc. 

So after one feeding round I get to nearly 1000 crystals or more if I feed them more than once.

To crack these open, I spend nearly an hour every time to uncrack them, which I could be using on taming dinos or doing loot drops etc. 

I believe that crystal cracker is nothing too overpowered to not be in game, but rather gives the players more time for the game. 

I am one of the subscribers and looking to upgrade my tier again as I believe the community of Merric is amazing and all the admins are doing amazing job and they deserve the support.