As I said before, Last Epoch approach to this was the best. If you don’t like trading you play self found and you get a buff drop, if you like trading you go for it with a proper action house.
Masterworking isn’t good at is now, it is tedious, you can farm for an entire week for Obducite, Rawhide, Veil Crystals, Forgotten Souls and gamba for triple target and still you won’t have much to show up for it, clearly you haven’t put that much of an effort to min max yourself to see how tedious and unfair it is, otherwise you wouldn’t have this opinion, I enjoy grinding, I like to work for a goal as long as the goal has fair meetings, I was top 150 Spiritborn in the Helltides leaderboards, I poured 184hours into this season, believe me I know what I’m talking about, maybe you’re right, this game isn’t for me, it is for a more casual audience that enjoys whatever this is.