okay, it may be a mod; I am using mods; didn't think any of them were tampering with how items are crafted. I will narrow it down to the mod and take it up with the author. Thank you!

When I first started playing this, I could queue an item to be crafted using the CRAFT ALL (so crafting the entire stack of what it says I could craft); I used to be able to drop the crafting of intermediary components and be left with the items it can craft without crafting the intermediary ...