Tip: the same mechanic that works for enchanting, is the exact same one for alchemy.
@ OP.
I'm sorry. It just CAN NOT get any easier than it already IS.
Play a warrior and smith as you go, if you reach 100 by the end of the game I will concede, but you won't smith up weps you find as there isnt profit, and you won't make your own weps because you can just find them, so at best you will spend your time improving found weps you want to equip, which will take you up to level 50 at best
Also I laid out the numbers, I need to smith approx 110 items from 90 to 100, I won't make 110 items in a single entire game unless I'm power smithing
And this I think addresses a huge community disconnect right now, between being forced to level smartly in the past games and the much more free style leveling now, you don't need to power level certain skills to come out powerful, it's meant to play as you go