No, I'm being stubborn, and imo the negativity is justified. If you want boring and zero-sense-of-accomplishment, look no further than getting your items from some dude in a trade chat.
For reference, this is the best item (in terms of being closest to my idea of a perfect set of affixes for a given slot) I've ever looted or crafted:
Unfortunately, it's a ilvl60 belt that has mods that are level 22, 42, 13, 7, and 5. The last two are fixed, but the other three could have been a hell of a lot better. Even so, I expect to be using it basically forever unless I decide to buy a Perandus Blazon.
Like I said above, I don't expect 6L Vaal Regalias with triple ES and triple resist mods to rain from the sky, but I do expect to do 30+ hours worth of maps and not sell literally every single item to the vendor. Sure, you can just say that my luck is horrible, and I wouldn't even argue that point. That doesn't explain away the absurdity of it taking on average 200 orbs of unfusing to make a 5L from a 6S. I've already used about 11-12 GCP worth of them trying to link up my current robe, for something that would be worth
maybe5 or 6 GCP if I actually got a successful roll. The very last one linked it back up in the same 4L/2L configuration it had when I picked it up off the ground, so I just said fuck it.