Personally, i think that crafting using the consumables is currently too random and unsatisfactory, unless an item has three (or five) properties that we are happy with, in which case we can use an Erieban Tear which i think is the most well designed consumable. If an item that we wish to adjust already has the maximum possible amount of properties, then the crafting falls flat due to the randomness of removing or replacing properties with Abyssal Tears and Ohm's Echos.
I think this could be solved by changing Abyssal Tears and Ohm's Echos so that any gems socketed into the item we are using those consumables on determines which property is lost or replaced, instead of guaranteeing one of the properties from not being lost or replaced.