Yes, it's becoming a bit lazy, but who cares? They did it with cooking food and with banking stuff, so why dont they do it also with smithing? I'll hope they will change it soon
I really want to smith a X number of Bronze Dagger or something else, I always have to click multiple times or select 5 or 10. Same thing with smelting the ores to bars. I think it need to be changed, what do you think?