We should be using Jewelers Orbs on Skill Gem "Slots", not on the Skill Gems themselves.

Title. There is virtually no room for experimentation with the current implementation of the gem system. In fact this system is blatantly worse than the coloration/socket system in POE1. This can easily be fixed by simply swapping jeweler functionality to upgrading the slot in which the gem is placed.

**Edit A few points for the people making silly arguments in the comments.

• GGG's initial reasoning publicly for this system was to eliminate unnecessary complications from the gearing/gem system. Going from getting 6L -> Coloring it and then experimenting and/or recoloring as you see fit to what we have now is absolutely not an improvement. Whereas before all I need were potentially some chromes or to experiment with similar colored supports now I'm pigeon holed into starting the entire process over from the ground up adding .... unnecessary complications to the gem/gearing experience.
  

There is no experimentation now, the end. If you want to experiment you're relinking from the ground up. If you're in SSF this is not something you just do as it's dependent on drops, you could be the unluckiest asshole who plays the game and never see a greater jeweler while you're sitting on 19 perfect jewelers and that's it, your experience is ruined.

• I see a lot of people making the point that if this were to change their 6L gem would lose inherent value that they've invested in it, and this again is a silly point. It only has 6L value because of the current iteration, of course it would lose value because that system would no longer exist. You know what else wouldn't exist? The need for you to re-link every skill you acquire in the future in-league because you've already unlocked the sockets on that gem "slot".