The Community is Really Bad at Articulating the Problem With Crafting

I do wonder what options the PoE2 crafting bench is going to bring. In hopes of it working, I do also want salvaging items to recover more of our crafting materials. Disenchanting a Rare after a Regal attempt does not recover much, but at least it is something.

I am not a huge crafter i will say that i would prefer better dedicated loot drops but damn this crafting system might as well of broken all its bones on the way to making it into this game.

You get a base for an item use a transmute on it and if it doesn't get anything decent you throw it away, with the inability to alter magic gear crafting stops at the first steps when making an item if its even mediocre, why would you risk rare valuable currency on bad items?

Your only option to "craft" is to horde base items or just instantly throw orbs at them once you find them and then scrap the item because its probably bad and not worth the currency and even if it is worth it, after using a regal it might also be bad and you throw it away because you are unable to alter it without expensive currency.

This crafting system works like a trash compactor, all the rare useful currency does not drop enough to have the ability to meaningfully interact with gear through out the campaign and even endgame and why trading is so relied upon.