Really enjoying end game, have 3 or 4 builds I'd love to do, I'm quitting.

This game is balanced around drops but as a console player it would take 1000x the time and effort to interface with drop goods other than what is tradeable on ange's exchange.

Essentially in the time it takes me to price check four jewels I could have run a map, I can't begin to know what is valuable each league without price check, the game is too big, I am not a streamer, unpaid data entry between maps is not my job. Streamers can pres a buttone and get an instant price check I have to take a picture of my screen on my phone and wait through an ad then massage search results just to find out I've wasted my time and mental energy, God help any poor souls doing it by manual entry in the game it would probably take 20 minutes to price check one item.

What I want is easier readability at a glance of the value of items and I want to link items to trade in such a way that their affixes and values are pumped into ingame trade with a two button combo from my inventory or stash and then searched to find which items in instant buyout most closely resembles them and what their prices are.

Having a way to search by tiers of affixes or around near tiers of affixes would also help.

I'm quiting because it feels terrible to think about loot the way I am forced to think about it. It's a waste of my time to pick it up and look at because I will never be able to interact with loot mechanics fast enough to be competitive with a PC player who has regex set up with intricate knowledge he is constantly updating with blink and you'll miss it speeds for price checks while I would need to take two days of unpaid data entry to clear my stash and have no clue if I'd make even a few div.

I have a knot in my stomach thinking about how I am trapped at the bottom of an economy hole I can't get out of because I dont have a PhD and path gear pricing and as console player that is the only alternative to PC pricecheck tools.

Obviously the inflation from other goings on is rough but the next part of this is that I dont make enough in raw drops to mitigate the loss of loot drops so I can't afford to craft gear to sell because I can barely make ends meet with my build.

Pricechecks might bridge the econ gap enough if you can make them quick and informative without needing to muck around in settings and fine tuning them constantly. I'm trapped like 2 weeks behind top PC players and well behind the curve for the majority of players.

After a week into a league I'm fighting off a breakdown over my own ineptitude when I know most people are quitting just like me for presumably similar reasons, making buils we want make is innacesiblebover the scale of time we're prepaired to invest; it's unreasonable to expect us to be able to be market competitive with PC currently but every instinct I have says I could be if I just had the tools and that basically turns path of exile in to poverty simulator.

There was more to this post but I started having that breakdown and in a moment of clarity I've cleaned that up, I'm going to sob in the shower for a while.