One toolbox costs 300, thats basically a monts worth of work
It’s not great, and they should bring the free weekly back, but it’s not as bad as you’re making it out to be.
Both my Crafting Tailor and my Weaponsmith already have 2 out of 3 Rare Tools without neglecting the one time Knowledge purchases.
Grab a second profession, do your patron orders and the Acuity comes.
my second profession is gathering.
The state of Gathering is the main reason they need to bring back the Artisan weekly. This character is double gathering and it’s rough .
Maybe just random Acuity drops once you get past the weekly Knowledge drops.
IMO the free weekly is the best method, because otherwise to help gatherers would require adding gatherer-specific bonuses which then enables profession shuffling degenerate behavior. Regardless of how costly that might be, people will do it for a resource as limited as Acuity is right now.