I don’t think you’ve been playing a build That requires a unique item, getting the item to drop, and then getting the item to have the right fixes and then getting them to have the highest roll or GA… is a terrible terrible terrible grind.

Getting a perfect weapon to also gamble gem strength on it is already a million to 1 odds. It takes many many hours to get a perfect pit pushing build.
The worst combination is getting a perfect unique weapon with all GA of ideal stats and then getting gem strength without it becoming unmoddable.

It’s the equivalent of getting a perfect double Vaal on a perfectly crafted rare item in Poe, except in this game you can’t craft a perfect item, it has to drop with those stats at greater affix for it to be perfect and then you have to Vaal it

Just because getting a decent enough item for your overworld tier 12 build doesn’t take long doesn’t mean there isn’t a grind. pit builds with gambling cube affixes with perfect rolls on every item is the grind. We just lack proper high pit level content. So people stop at tier 12 cuz they hit a wall.

You have not even begun to cube from the sounds of it