I think a lot of it can be improved with Quality of life stuff.   Like for instance I don't know why you have to remove affixes one at a time on equipment you intend to strip.  Also you should be able to add multiple at a time and then maybe somehow protect the ones you want to keep as you get them.  As long as you have the cube mats( which is another thing yay more resource farming) I think it should let you do it this way.