So heists literally useless now?

Or i am wrong?
Usually im invest in Heists farm on start to gather small currency in first 1-3 days and big "lootz" on day 4-14.

But not in this league anymore i guess.
The biggest drop for 2 weeks that i got is - Replica Farrul which is 2 Div(jesus).
2 Div man from a lot of Grand heists and heists.

In previous leagues I can make 20-30-40 Divs from alternate Quality aura/skill gems at this time.
Now they gone.

Replicas are cheap as F.
Trinkets are usefull only for those who's running Heists - and most of them are cheap.
Alternate weapon bases- are 2c - 5c range.

So what we able to farm now in heist in terms of big "tinks" ?

From what I've seen this league, "Yes" to the thread title.

I don't even think the problem is the removal of alt-quality gems. Don't get me wrong, selling alt quality gems is an easy way to make bank early on in a league, but I could usually make plenty of good returns from focusing the replica or trinket/currency heists.

The problem is that now... that's not a thing.

Every grand heist ends in a big pile of random garbage rares, with maybe one replica and one currency option. That change makes it much less likely to actually be offered something decent, because more than half of your choices aren't even worth considering.

GGG can't reverse the alternate quality gem thing, but if they don't reverse the "all reward types in every heist" change the mechanic is completely dead in terms of farming viability. Time to start blocking it every league, I guess.

Your best bet is to run heists with the expectation of farming Stacked Decks as well as getting the chaos/regal>divine orb conversion trinkets. Yes I know the latter is absurdly expensive, but that's kinda the best option.

it seems that they finally made it into 'requires investment' content

heist gear (reduced alert, duplicate, job speed, job level, extra reward, no alarm after opening grand lockbox) + good trinket

ive ran around 30 blueprints, mostly low investment and stacking alert reduction/time before lockdown (from time to time you get 5 meh rewards, time to loot everything)

and it seems allright for how easy it is (because it is pretty damn free money, no challenge involved farming blueprints). if you have fast build, doesnt even have to be good, just fast - the challenge level compares to T1 essence farm

heist with badly geared rogues most probably suck. i play standard so my guys are decked. but i do not envy people willing to gear them all up, it is pretty depressing experience

I can't even do heist this league. Whenever I try to level my chars the game crashes. I respected my whole atlas tree because heist was/is unplayable.