Yoshi-P made crafted / melded gear so hard to access that by the time we can actually get a piece the chances for it to be an upgrade are slim to none. On top of that there are no accessories anymore.
This more than likely was due to SE wanting to gate the savage content as much as possible.

In 2.x those pentamelded crafted gears or accessories laced with vit, let people beat content at a way lower ilvl / timeframe than the dev's anticipated.

They are trying to strech out the life of the content as much as possible.

and sadly the crafters are the ones who got a big ole size 14 kick between the legs.