you literally dont know what you are talking about. This was exactly how the game was designed when it was created, and eventually caused a massive wave through the industry to prevent hardcore players from doing this, this is why you see mmo’s have 10+sec delays when logging out outside of safe areas.
“Chicken” cheating save exiting is literally the creator of this change, so naturally it would remain the same for D2R, at least until they officially patched it out, which 2.4 might have done and saved hardcore from cheaters finally.