Jury is still out for me. At first it didn’t feel so good and I basically did the bare minimum to get something on my gear to get to masterworking.
But now that I’m pushing higher pit levels and trying to squeeze out the extra DPS having to I’m looking at what tempering I can change. The difference is now 2 weeks into the season I have multiple backups of gear in my stash so as I’m working on those tempering recipes bricking an item doesn’t feel as bad when I have 5 more viable items next in line.
So where I’m starting to lean towards is bricking is annoying but still superior to the old system where I’d go for a month and not get that 3/4 item I wanted.