I think it was clear from the very beginning that you could get that message only when under lvl 31. This kinda gives a "fresh" start to strat too, since being a lvl 34 char with 90% chance to craft WM armor, weapons and horses would be kinda .... stupid. You need to focus on either farming looms and getting crafting points, to become a crafter. Or get your char stronger on the battle field. It seems to be a trade off. And crafting seems to be quite expensive too, because for that I know. When you craft an item you get 1 of those items. Not 100 of them.
With high crafting skills you can craft quite a lot wm items per hour, but it might cost you even 10k per hour to do that
WM armors and weapons are probably only going to be used by the "spawn point" commanders, so they won't die that easily. And voila, now the "Lords & Ladys" of the land will be wearing superior equipment compared to normal soldiers. As it should be. Frankly the spawnpoint system doesn't quite work yet
And we also need new "looks" for heilroomed items.