Diablo 3 is fundamentally broken

[ViralSpiral]

Basically, yeah. I like how it's practically impossible after NM for anything useful to drop, in part because of ultimately junky affixes like "+ single resist" which are unnecessary in NM and outclass in Hell by resist all, but remain forever to junk up your rares. Normal has a relatively clean affix pool, and NM has a few facepalms, but it's still mostly good stuff. Once you get the L50+ items though there's so many junk affixes flying around.

I will admit that at least most gear that can have sockets seem to spawn them pretty often. I know in D2 1.08 they increased the chances of enhanced armour/damage so at least historically they've been able to tweak items to be more likely to spawn affixes people actually want.