How odd, but that's an entirely different form of stupid, we need another acronym. SBWM! loves metamagic, he still pines for 3.0 when you could stack multiple empowers on the same spell. If he knew about non-core sources and could chain and split he'd love metamagic even more. And as for crafting, SBWM! started doing that after his first day of adventure when he got people to return to town after one encounter with kobolds rather than continuing, because that encounter gave him 75 XP and he had about 160 GP and thus could make a scroll of 12 level 1 spells and ray of frost (for only 12 XP since you round down) and never again worry about running out of slots.
He's been crafting ever since because crafting saves money, money is power, and with POWER you can BLAST!