Right, and the reason it didn’t work is that in PoE the stuff you pick up gives you ways to boost your items or character. I understand that they want to have the actual boosting be less complex and have it go through vendors who can give you a little tutorial on it. And I certainly understand not wanting the crafting material spam of a game like LE.
But gating the content itself is just awful.
Glad to see the drop rate is buffed. But just goes along with my comment above: low drop rate for gated content feels bad. High drop rate for gated content is just a meaningless speed bump. Make it a juicing item instead and it fixes both problems.