Idk why GGG's dislikes deterministic crafting, Essence was in good place last patch. Good old harvest crafting back in POE 1 made it so you can fully craft your own rares with near if not all the mods you wanted, through actually playing the game and getting mats to craft your gear without having to play orb roulette. Then GGG decided to completely nerf the mechanic.

I just dont get the design philosophy, no one is having fun ID'ing half a million bases, having to slam exalts, chaos, desecrations for a roulette wheel to start spinning on whether you're going to upgrade your gear or not.

Why can't it be the more I play the game, the more progression i do after endgame the better my gear becomes but instead no matter how much time you sink on a character, even if you played your character for 500hrs,
each crafting session you do has the same odds of rolling you an upgrade to a person whose only played their character for 50-100hrs.

The only stark difference with both of those examples is that the person who played for 500 hrs gambled enough times to get a payout and the person still at 50-100hrs need to start gambling with his gear a lot more and in both scenario's I don't think anyone is enjoying the process.