According to Bethseda, the game's crafting feature is completely optional to use for those that don't care about the feature or at least during the first time playing the game.
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It’s a completely optional, freeform thing that you can do, if that’s what you want to do. If you don’t care about that and you just want to play quests and play side quests, and finish the main quest and that sort of thing then you can just ignore all of this [crafting]. Or do as much or as little as you want.
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