I agree. And I agree with Grayson Perry. Part of what I see as an issue is that some people feel that craft is somehow less worthy than art. And that is not true. To me craft implies technical competence and art implies emotion and expression. They are not exclusive of each other. I feel that there are craftspeople who are not artists - perhaps to be less controversial a newsreporter is a craftsperson...but a poet is an artist....and when that newsreporter is writing poetry he is an artist. Now an artist has a craft....and may be competent or maybe practicing. Let's take poetry. One could follow the rules of haiku to write an automobile ad and that is low on the artistic scale, but successful on the craft scale. Children's pictures are often high on the artistic scale (especially therapeutic works) but because of their lack of skill, may not be high on the "craft" of painting, drawing etc. Most of us work hard to improve our craft so that we can be more successful and more pleased personally or professionally with our expression. As a potter, I work on new skills and improving old ones so I have multiple ways to express or build what is in my head....my craft though remains mediocre.
I also think that one can become so focused on craft and technique that they lose balance and find themselves with technically wonderful work that is not very interesting or even personally satisfying. It may. however, still be very profitable. I have an acquaintance who does wildlife art. His style is pen and ink pointillism - and he says he pursues this because it sells. He is very technically competent, but has works do not pull emotion from folks - but they are very decorative and sell well. However, he is not happy and doesn't enjoy doing these. But by his own admission, he keeps score by $$$. (And fibs about his sales!)
Of course having spent the first half of my life in the corporate world, I may have a different personal definition. I do believe that the business person is a craftsperson...and can be very competent - even at high levels, but not an artist. However, there is also an art to business that comes from inspiration, creativity. To me invention is art. Alexander Graham Bell's first phone is a work of art. But then I have some antique garden tools that I feel are art...not in the "garden art" decorative sense...but art because of the stories of use and gardens past that they evoke in my mind's eye.
Well I have rambled long for a rainy Friday, I think I shall wander into my studio.