Qurious Weapon Crafting is stupid and I hate it

Why cant I just skip straight to the highest level augment. It's just so fucking stupid. I grind the Risen elders for two weeks straight with the stupid fucking assumption that I can just straight up unlock level 7 anomaly slot. Didn't work and now I have to grind some more just to unlock the slots one level at a time. "But that's fine" I thought, "surely I won't have to grind the fucking augments one level at a time as well". I go try to unlock elemental boost lv. 8 I have to unlock every fucking level one by one. WHY