Buying Idols is the most miserable thing I witnessed it poe.

So I've tried to get Idols for my atlas strategy. I need specific mods for my DOO build with extra shrines and duration and rest is whatever I wanted to farm.

Instead of wasting gold on Idols and trying to recombine them I've decided to buy them. This is worst experience in poe1 in history of the game. First relic /w first guy 2d relic - no response, 2nd 7d - no response, 3rd 10d, 4th 15d, 5th 20d, 6th 25d - f it we ball I want to start my farm. But no 0 responses, 0 invites, 0 trades. I need 3 of those.

Ok I've decided to start trading other Idols and come back to first one later. After 30 min - got one relic for 20c and about 50 whispers and price of 5d no responses. Some people changed their price tenfold and obviously after whisperig them minute after listing - no response.

I don't understand how did GGG fumbe this so hard. Obviously after 30 min of playng with Idols any player would tell them it's bad idea. No way to craft them, recombinator 90% of the time deletes mods you want and leae beasts and jun, Faustus sells relics for 40k gold while t16 map gives you 25-30k gold.

I love poe, I want to play my build but Idols is big smelly turd that you just can't avoid.

Edit: Couple of responses here instead in comments.

-Necropolis trading was worse. - At leas you could pay extra for bulk buy. Here, even offering 25 div for Idol that was posted for 5 isn't guarantee for trade.

-It's not Idols that re poroblem but rather trade/recobinator or whatever. - yes If one part was fixed like: trade post instead of archaic barter trading (it would be filled with bots so idk about this one), recombinator having a mod like "100% to retain at least 2 prefixes and 2 suffixes" so if you put 2 Idols with 4 mods combined it would just guarantee the mods to be there. Or the easiest way to fix them - just delete Unmodifiable mod from them and let me alt spam.

-It's just an event bro. - Remember when events lasted 2 weeks and not 2 months? I member. This event will last at least till May.