Actually, I just found a fascinating response from Silius over on VanguardCrafters, regarding the xp gained from doing work orders:
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There is way more to process XP then what you are evaluating here, the numbers are not set in stone as your posted results imply. You need to post how many clicks you had per recipe, how many complications, how many clicks it took for you to finish the complication, and how many action points you had left. Your performance during a process factors into your potential XP it is not nearly as cut and dry as doing a few work orders and posting the final numbers.
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This explains a number of things I saw yesterday when doing my marathon Work Order stint.
In the above-referenced thread, someone else states that the xp-distribution changes at amateur, so what I said above is probably only valid for novice stuff.
I'm reconciling myself to the idea that there's still a lot to discover about the crafting system - I had that attitude in beta and somehow lost it during the launch process, I think. That said, there has nonetheless been a weird "drop in fun" in the last week or so and I'd like to figure out why. I love being challenged, but I absolutely hate feeling I'm being persecuted by a random number generator - the sooner I can find out this isn't the case (and take steps to smack it back), the happier I'll be.
Not today, however. I have a headache from hell and I think that nice dark room next door (no, not the one with the padded walls - yet :-D) is calling my name.