Well I made the longbow and the shortbow and this got me completelly burned out, It was when people farmed AB meta non stop and this made me and my friends drop the game. I bought POF expansion and never touched it before last week when I came back to the game.
You have to invest your time to make a legendary and if it was made easier to do it would be unfair to the people who put the effort to make one.
The first thing I thought about when I installed the game again was making a legendary amor JUST because of the convenience in changing stats, but I think If you are a casual player the best path is having one ascended set for the meta and a bunch of exotics when you want to play with other builds.
And If you want to craft remember to enjoy the game doing other stuff with your friends while crafting, cause if you focus only on the leg it will definetly make you burned out.