Auto  sell!

As  far  as  the  drops,  they  are  all  balanced  based  on  what's  available.    If  they  got  rid  of  those  pieces,  they  would  then  sit  down  to  rebalance,  probably  lowering  the  rates  of  6*  and/or  legendary  pieces.    Which  could  lower  the  average  sale  value  of  crap  gear.    I  don't  know  thats  what  they'd  do,  but  most  likly  they'd  find  some  way  to  'fix'  it.

That's why I'm wondering if it is, by design, created to dilute the quality of drops. Otherwise, I don't see a plausible purpose for it.

A way to earn silver easy ? I rarely will roll any middle row flat stat , so thats more silver to upg the good ones ?

If all middle row had % stats only , i would need to sort them , upg them to 8 , then decide if its complete trash or could be used for fw gear ... eventually run out of silver since i do keep my gear cache pretty clean ..

From  a  business  perspective,  i  imagine  eliminating  the  flat  main  stats  on  middle  row  gear  would  be  a  hard  sale.    Better  drops  translates  into  less  grinding,  which  means  less  energy  refills  and  gems.    Less  revenue.

I think once you get enough solid gear, you'll be selling pieces based on substats and rolls. It's not like you keep every %-stat piece of gear you get, you'll just suffer through some time when you get better gear....seems like a good problem to have.