Stop making us go to the Salvage Bench, it's annoying (and other things)

Could you consider adding the dismantle icon directly to the inventory screen? It would save players from constantly going back and forth to the Salvage Bench. Additionally, when backing out of assigning (cutting) a support or skill gem, it would be more convenient if it returned us to the stash screen instead of requiring us to click it again every time.

It would also be helpful to place the stash closer to the Hooded One in every act and position the disenchanting NPC near the stash. Having these essential NPCs far from the stash wastes time and adds unnecessary frustration. Given how large your maps are, optimizing town layouts to save a little time would be a much-appreciated quality-of-life improvement.

Get your own hideout and rearrange it to your liking. I put everything including vendors right next to each other. Pretty? No. Efficient? Hell yeah.

I get what you're saying though. When it's a repetitive task like portaling back, doing that same routine over and over, it does imply better workflow design is needed.

But until that potentially happens, the former is my 2c.
End-game only though afaik.

I just arrive it so its all super close to each other to save time. I can basically click everything I need without much movement.

Yeah i know about the hideout. I'm talking about the story mode town setups specifically.