i actually hate crafting with a passion. The only reason i managed to 99 for max cape is i discovered the secret shades of mort'ton crafting strategy (do not tell others)
there's a reason why people bot/macro.
To me, it's any skill where I have to spend more than 5-10 minutes to get to my goal. At least give me some progress. But once you tell me "you need to spend 1 hour doing the same thing" you lost me. And you can pretty much find examples of this in all skills. I'd say dungeoneering was an exception to some degree, but that's long gone. And it was a minigame not a skill.
Even slayer with the various monsters and gears, feels repetitive. I'm at 500 tasks, 2 mil xp away from 99, and... egh... I'm coming here to distract myself from the grind. Maybe I should go play factorio or project diablo...