GGG, please make a decision about future of SSF in POE2

I understand that SSF is and always will be a niche mode for a small number of players and that large investments into its development are not justified, but in its current state, it's very hard to play SSF.

Lack of targeted crafting with the drop rates tailored towards trade with hundreds of thousands of players and millions of drops, makes the SSF a torture instead of an enjoyable experience. Combined with endgame mechanics gated behind very rare items like Audience, or lucky chances like finding Expedition bosses, or items that require excessive grind (splinters), makes the SSF gameplay exercise in frustration, because even with the extra grind that we expect to do in SSF, it's nowhere near enough even to be able to engage in the endgame content that currently exists. As more content is added, it will become even worse.
And I'm going to avoid topics like Perfect Jewellers that simply do not exist in SSF.

From what I've read about some previous statements regarding SSF, one of the reasons why SSF can't have better drop rates to compensate somewhat for the drop rate tuned based on trade, was the merging of SSF into Standard after the end of a league. That's reasonable, but with POE2, there is now an opportunity to finalize the split of SSF from trade and make "SSF Standard", and merge SSF leagues into that.

This way, SSF could have a few tweaks to make our lives just a tiny bit easier and more enjoyable, without any worry of people abusing higher drop rates to 'enrich' themselves after the merge.

I play HC-SSF mainly.

The droprates of exalted makes SSF feel really bad.
It's incredibly hard to craft decent equipment for your class.

I'd much prefer if they added a way to more consistently get exalted orbs.

As example: Instead of 2 regals, any 5-6 modifier rare item that you disenchant will get you 1 regal and 1 exalt shard or something.

Idk, that could very well feel bad too but you get the idea.

I want more sustainable way of getting exalts, currently i can run through whole acts and several maps without seeing any.