In response to the original post, I feel it is too late to scrap the current HQ system no matter what popular opinion of it may be. Even when trying to reduce the loot pools of monsters, they are unable to erase the existence of +1 and +2 items in the game because they are things that people already have and have accepted to be worth their respective values.

You can't suddenly change it so all +1 items are now just the same thing as normal quality items and neither can you accept all the +2 items to be as valuable and powerful as +3 items. People who have already obtain any +1 +2 +3 items will not sit idly by with the sudden destruction to the value to all their possessions. High quality items already have their bonuses set and their values based on the difficulty to make and rarity and any changes to the system in which they were made or how effective the bonuses are would outrage too many players.

Live with it and just remember a +3 may even gain value over time depending on the changes made through the game. +3 is not meant to by use by your everyday player and is not meant to be common at all. +1 is a 5% bonus, +2 is a 10% bonus and +3 is 15% bonus to normal item stats (rounding up) for those who don't know and as the base items stats increase with rank, the bonuses are increasing at a much greater rate as well.