I won’t pretend to be a dev. and offer solutions, but I’ll share the challenges I’ve faced with this mechanic in regards to gameplay.
Conduit Energy is impacting my gameplay schedule, due to energy not resetting weekly or soulbinds being spec specific I am stuck waiting to socket different conduits at the end/beginning of the week. If I didn’t raid 3 days in a row this would be impossible to manage.
Between WW/BM Torghast (twisting corridors), PvP and Mythic+/Raid I can’t keep up with switching conduits.
If the soulbinds at least unlocked conduits rows at the same pace this issue would be less of a challenge but we aren’t just talking about the soulbinds major abilities. We are actually talking about a whole less conduit.
Can you run most content with a sub optimal soulbinds/conduits yes. But raid has expectations, mythic plus has expectations and arena almost requires optimal conduits. If you’re pushing the limit of your personal skill every bit matters.
And in the case of double dps conduits with aoe conduits we are not talking about a small amount of dps.
I realize the soulbinds/conduits are being viewed holistically but that isn’t the experience for most players. It simply is not enjoyable, to be in the scenario where for example you main tank a raid three nights a week, then want to pvp as a WW, then want to help push another tanks keys for keystone master or help heal a friends raid.
This is compounded by the fact that if you don’t set out from the start to make each soulbind for a separate spec, and wanted to try them for your main role i.e. tank and socketed all tank conduits it takes you a long time to reset them.
It just feels completely arbitrary because you can still change them in a week, I just feel obligated to run x content days 1/2/3 and y content 4/5/6.
This is not consistent across all classes as some covenant conduits are BiS for all content.