Crafting just doesn't exist for "normal" items anymore

I hate the way they changed crafting. If you want to really try to craft something, you need omens which atleast for me cost way too much. I don't wanna craft only high end gear. Back in poe 1 after getting 1 character into the endgame and in a good spot, I made the gear for my 2nd character from scratch. Every single piece crafted. What happened to being able to find/buy a good fractured base, deciding what mods you need and what is the best/cheapest crafting process for that item. The only "crafting" you can do without omens is transmute-augment-regal-slam until full since we dont even have a crafting bench. And if at any of those stages you get like 1-3 dead mods the item is just garbage. I know the game is in early access and they have time and player feedback to improve upon. Idk if someone likes the current "crafting" system but I've only heard negative feedback from it. I guess the high end crafting is fine with omens but I wanna craft good items, not perfect ones!