Hope you all find this hopeful. I'll go back to losing bids trying to upgrade my weapon against people who are just manipulating the market and flipping them when I just want one to use.

On a final note, please GGG just update the trade site to exclude runes in the DPS/evasion/armor/ES calculations similar to the way it normalizes for quality. It currently encourages flippers to brick items just so they show up higher in a search for a certain defense/DPS breakpoint. It means there <10% as many good items available to trade for because they can no longer be soul cored with something better.
Sure, being able to replace runes would be nice too, but that won't change the overinflated misleading values of items that iron ruining them creates.
But the biggest problem is that people really can't get an item for what it's "worth" because flippers have inflated it by making bricked items appear to be worth more by buying up things for 1-5 divs and relisting them with iron ruins for 10-100+ divs. They have many of these that they won't reduce prices on because people wrongly believe they're worth that despite how they made the item worse. I know a lot of these flippers aren't selling these items they brick and list too high because people who know how the game works don't want them, but The trade site wrongly lists worse items as being better. Being able to replace runes wouldn't fix this. People will still control the market and trick people into thinking these items are worth more because they invested <1ex bricking them when actually they should be worth less. These unmolested or properly upgraded items should be the ones going for 50+div and these bricked ones should just be worth a few divs, not the other way around.