Expedition - How did it get worse???

So I never liked expedition, placing the explosives was just tedious and uninteresting, waste of time to try and optimize what i explode. Didin't feel right, and that's fine, I skip the mechanic.

Poe2 comes around, expedition is here, ok. Let me try it, maybe it's great loot, I think. But then the disaster strikes... What am I looking at? Why are the artifacts dropping on the ground and need to be clicked on? How did we regress to the original expedition ??? We had it fixed in PoE, please GGG, make the stupid relics auto pickup again...

Update: Looking throughout my hideout and we do not have the expedition stash? I guess this explains the lack of autopickup, but we really should either have the expedition stash (although it is kind of redundant and silly) or just have a UI keep track of expedition resources when interacting with the NPC's, really, how are we back to the PoE1 problem of getting extra 1 slot currency that we need to dump into some random tab.

Rant over.