Name already taken - A character with this name already exists

I didn't play PoE 1 so I'm not sure if this is normal, but coming into this it ended up taking a while to find a name that wasn't taken. Trying to create a new character and it does the same thing, to the point where I think I'm going to have to add in random letters and numbers at the end.

Is there a plan on this being changed or any posts by the developers addressing this? I feel like I'm missing something because this was an issue for AOL in the 90s and was solved pretty quickly after, either having a base account name that needs to be unique (e.g., email, Steam account, forum account, etc.) and then sub-accounts that don't need to be unique (character name) or every character name having hidden modifiers, so if you wanted to name your character "Bob" it'd show up as "Bob" but it's full name would be Bob#12345 for friend requests, with an in-game option to toggle those to be visible by default.

My main issue with the game right now, even though its such a simple thing. this was solved a long time ago in other online games. I spent awhile trying to find something that wasn't taken, even using auto generators.