I did the 1-60 journey as self found and I would have liked it a lot more if I could have maxed out a profession that requires other professions. I looked into it and I would have had to swap through several different professions to get the profession tool.
It would be kinda neat if a person could send mail to their other self-found characters. Do other people disagree? is doing 5 different professions to level up one something that is fun?
Good news, you can already do that! Just disable the self found setting on the respective character.
I wouldn’t really know, I don’t do self-found and have like, 3 or 4 leatherworkers and one engineer rofl
If you would like self-imposed rules, feel free to use them. Please, do not try to change current standing rules. Thank you. You’re 100% free to use a normal hardcore character, and use self found rules on them, with the exception of the trade for profession mats. YOU will know that you didn’t break the rules. But, you won’t get the glory of having others know. But, the OPTION is there!