Merchants Issue in early leveling

Is there a reason why the merchants are not usable until you get to level ten or so?

What I means is, it is impossible to buy anything at the prices the vendors have prior to leveling because you do not have the gold quick enough...

Is there a plane to make these prices realistically scale? Or maybe add an option to see the stores for each level? I missed out on some killer stuff because it was just gone before I had any gold to afford anything.

Anyone else a little bothered by this?

Yet another half-baked change that wasn’t properly thought through.

In POE1, vendors were useful from the very start because prices were based on items you could find in the first zone—like scrolls. But here, they obsessed over adding gold (which is completely pointless—POE1 worked just fine without it) and didn’t even think that system through either.

At this point, GGG needs new leadership—the current management is just outdated and out of ideas.