Gem's and gem sockets

I'm not a huge fan of how gems work at the moment. You find a lot of uncut gems in the end game which causes a massive amount of item bloat in the game. Also, trying to find a level 20 uncut gem seems to be like finding a unicorn. I have found 0 thus far, half way to level 96 on my character. Gems felt so much better with the level up system of PoE1 where you can actually develop skill power alongside with your character leveling up rather than skill progression being dependent on RNG.

Skill gems also have the problem of being socketable. While PoE1's sockets in items was not a perfect system, it allows for skills to be changed rather easily depending on your set up. I think jeweller's orbs should actually be socketed into a skill slot on the character, where you could change the main skill you wish to utilize rather than socketing the skill of choice. With this, you could unequip that skill slot if you wish to trade the skill slot for currency.