They already addressed it. All i did was search for dev quotes using the word 'artifact', this was the first result.

Quote Originally Posted by Camate View Post
The development team is aware of the large issue where inventory space is being taken up by artifact equipment and other equipment that you are unable to discard, and they are looking into countermeasures that will either allow you to simply discard them or create an NPC to take care of it for patch 2.1.
Why oh why do people refuse to use the forum search tool?