Atlas Mapping is sometimes really annoying

I like the concept of an Atlas system, but i do want to see some improvements.

I like the idea of juicing my maps, but i dont like the amount of time it takes to do it and how absolutely pointless currency farming is without doing it.

I have to:
- collect loads of T15 waystones
- Bump them all up to rare + exalt slam them
- add deliriums to them one by one
- corrupt them

then find the good ones that have rarity + quantity. Literally a requirement to ever see a divine orb. No rarity 100% + juiced maps + 3 or 4 precursors? take your 3 exalts and be grateful for it. But we're not done!

Now i need to find all the precursors i have saved up and look for the ones i like. So i want to do some rituals, i've done 100 of these trying to find an audience with the king but maybe this time?

i have to:
-find all of the ritual precursors
-upgrade to magic
-add additional mod

fine, not too bad. But wait!, i still need to do more, i cant play the game yet. Now i need to go and find a cluster of 3 or 4 towers with good maps, because if i dont do that i'm going to get a chaos orb and 3 exalts in a map, even with all the above done.

So i go and i find 3 or 4 towers, i clear through them and wonder why such a cool map and feature is so boring. No boss at the end defending the tower? No league mechanics? why...

load in my precursors to all the towers, most of them dont go where i want but that's why i found 4 towers.

NOW im ready to play the game. I've got these towers stacked up with 15% + quantity and 20+ rarity finds, i'm only running my quantity + rarity t16 corrupted waystones, and i've got my equipped item rarity to 104%. Now i'm cooking. But i'll have to do that tomorrow now, i've spent all night setting this farm up and its late and i have work tomorrow.

So the next day i clear these 6 or 7 maps that i've spent an hour clicking my inventory and 2 or 3 hours clearing around. Got myself about 6 or 7 divine orbs nice. Still no audience with the king though..

Then i heard citadels can drop nice currency, so i see one in the distance and i start pathing to it, but theres a lake, so i try and go around the lake, but theres a mountain range, and then a forest.. in the end i just give up because im about 20 maps in chasing a damn connection over and it's just not happening for me. Wtf?

Can i just log in and play this game and it be worth while without having to look at spreadsheets and meta game the fun out of it please?

The rarity + quantity scaling is absolutely caning the economy as well by the way. It's so exponential that there is absolutely no point in playing unless you do all of the above and its such a ball ache to do it. The saying "players will optimise the fun out of games" is true, but it's another thing to implement that as a game design? come on...