The rust storm was noted as it was far more aggressive than anything else that has been done, we said that. I’m not so sure that warden was the dedicated mechanic for getting rid of dupes, it was the mechanic for finding and banning botters/map hackers/cheaters. The game itself would clash out the items. And warden wasn’t stopped being in use in LOD, I’m not sure what they call D2R’s anti cheat or maybe about the very end of LOD, but I don’t remember them ever stopping running it. It simply wasn’t updated anymore.
It seems like only you are talking out of your “wazoo” though my friend.