Corruption was a mistake. Just go back to gear that drops simply being gear...that drops.
My issue is that all my alts are getting upgrades from WQs, but about half seem to get corrupted. I am not going to do that ridiculous intro questline on all my toons in the near future (to get the cloak), so much for upgrades...
someday blizzard will actually make it much more clear on what's an upgrade for us...oh who am i kidding
so I remember Ion saying that they dont like how simming is almost required for everyone if they dont want to fall behind, but corrupted gear made simming even more insane.
I think that's the point. They wanted to make it so difficult to sim that people would find it unnecessary to do so. Like, if someone REALLY didn't want you to go down a hallway, they'd put a bunch of garbage and barbed wire and whatnot in front of you to make it more difficult. The difficulty is supposed to stop you from continuing.
a lot of people enjoy corruptions, it gives trhat feeling of legendaries back in legion whenever one would drop for you. ppl just hate it cuz they are ambitions and dont want to play enough in order to get rewarded for their play time.