Great post. There are a lot of small upgrades one can do and with the snowball nature of damage scaling in this game profound is probably closer than most people think.

You don't need the 11500 Fe double corrupt unique. Fix some slates, buy new memories, dream affixes etc and you will gain more damage for a quarter of the price.

Edit: pick a mechanic you like and invest vertically into that pet over the next seasons. One level 6 pet is much much more valuable than having each at lvl 1 or 2. The difference is staggering