endgame crafting is just a scam

i'm a fresh poe2 player and never played poe1 before. anyways i played this game actively for at least 600 hours and i never managed to get into endgame crafting. never found a single purple omen, never found a single audience with the king. my character is able to clear every content of the game but it feels like there's not even a chance to approach the endgame crafting. to acquire a single whittling omen i should pay a price that is close to the first 400 hours of gaming (this is totally unacceptable).
for a normal person (if sinking 10 hours everyday into a videogame makes a normal person.. lol!!) this is just frustrating and not fair at all. an healthy economy is based on purchasing power, so going to work for a salary that cannot guarantee the minimum well being is just a waste of time and being jobless would feel a lot better.

Let me guess you have also picked up tens fo thousands of items and only 3 of them were kinda alright enough to sell for more than 1ex, while every single time you slammed a mediocre base, you vendored it 4 seconds later?

yeah lol ^^ i also found some interesting item that sold for 1-2 divines ahhahahaha
when i find a divine orb i feel so good but then i check the prices of items that would slightly improve my build and i should spend 150 divines lol.
totally unacceptable for 600 hours of grinding. i think GGG should just change name if this is what they mean for grinding gear games hahahaha