I believe that most players do not like to have that all the time back to Klaipeda, face the swarm of players, to repair the items that have already been repaired there 10 minutes ago. Then might have an item that sells the Blacksmith, an anvil, hammer, scroll, whatever, than in the possibility of repairing our items on the map where we are, no we need to go to Klaipeda, thus causing not lose our points of XP back and forth, back and forth.
Yes, I was thinking, this then inutilizaria Blacksmith and maybe even the Squire, but well, that such an item can we be a bit “expensive”, say, as the Scroll of Teleportation, it costs 5000 today, maybe this item repair could expense in half, to lvl 75 items, for example, and could also have different repair levels for items of higher level, thus making the value increase, many still vain prefirir use the blacksmith. Already concerned the Squire, he would not be unusable because beyond repair, he buffs the arm, giving more damage, clearly it will not be useless, especially in Dungeons.
As you said squires exist for this purpose and they set their price. If you don’t like the price they set on your convenience then go back to town or pay for the convenience the options are there.