Gear Retention Through Leagues

I'll preface this with I've played Diablo for a long time and Path Of Exile 1 briefly, and one massive problem I find as someone working is finding the time to get the top level rarity gear. In diablo it was the uber uniques, in POE2 it's things like Astramentalis.

In short, there should be a way to maintain these through seasons. For example, just a little check button that you can play new leagues or at least carry over items at the cost of access to certain ingame activities. Things like disabling access to group ascendancy trials so you can't just carry your buddies through ascensions. Obviously I don't have an entire list of things, but I'm sure one could be made to stop powerleveling.

In short, it's easy to read this and just label me and anyone else who agrees as "lazy" but try and see my perspective. I don't even have kids and I have a hard time finding time to grind the endgame, and I don't think it's reasonable to ask the community to grind 100+ hours per league of grinding just to get items. Trading is also an option but most people just don't want to put in that effort, especially with how bad RMT inflation is nowadays and the vicious cycle of people randomly upcharging despite supply increasing to get ahead of the market.

No. They could make certain items a little less rare or easier to obtain but you should not be able to start a fresh league/season with them.