The pig! THE PIG! Where's that new pig model? Oops! Sorry Or you could just, you know, play the game. Look, I'm anti-LBD for crafting, and honestly, anti-LBD in general. The only games I've ever liked it in are Wizardry 6/7/8 (but there you could only raise skills if you were doing something with the potential for failure or that cost resources) and 7 Days (but I started playing after they'd removed having to craft a billion clubs to make better clubs).
I never ground skills in A16, and I never found myself lacking. Yeah, I might be on day 30 something and have an armor skill under 10, but that didn't really matter. I don't know that I ever had a firearm skill over 50, yet I still had a blast playing the game.
My athletics was usually my first skill to hit 100, but I didn't bunny hop around. I did run everywhere though, but I still do that. It wasn't to grind, it was because I'm impatient and the walking speed is too slow. Second would be mining because I mine a lot.
Honestly, I'm not fussed one way or the other about LBD coming back. But I do want the crafting magazines to go away. They make the game too linear, and force me to go looting when I'd rather be doing something else.