Currency and crafting seems out of touch with each other.

I have played poe for-freaking-eva, exclusively ssf hardcore. I haven't ever really seen end game poe to be honest. Made it to late maps a couple times, but never any uber bosses or stuff like that. Well Poe 2 rolls around and I finally have some friends showing interest in the game, so I make a normie seasonal character and got to the "end" game and wow... this game seems purposefully out of touch with itself.

Currency everywhere.. trash items everywhere... a crafters dream right? Well no. Hunt down a good base (rng) and start crafting, usually trash, but every once in a while a treasure. Well I am to the point where I would like to heavily invest into my gear and the omens that I would like don't appear? I have gotten maybe 2 of the ones that let you remove the low tier modifiers? I have heavily focused on ritual league recently and nothing.

My argument is this game seems purposefully not in sync with itself . Why all the crafting mats if you really can't get the ones you need to upgrade your gear proper? I have absolutely no interest in engaging in trading as it stands now, and I am to a point where I can't progress my gear in any time frame not measured in weeks or months and being almost 100% beholden to dumb luck. You guys have stuck a gambling simulator ontop of another gambling simulator and locked the currency to re-enter the 2nd lvl casino behind another rng layer (ritual rewards). I am beyond frustrated and the only thing I can think of, this is purposefully done to waste a players time and keep them engaging in the league. I hope this is some EA nonsense and the drop rates get tweaked or maybe some ssf buffs get rolled out. Just something