@Hexme:
Sorry to interrupt, but FpicEail was talking about a change to the playstyle or its lack thereof due to the passiveness of the artifact traits. And your long text mainly says that you do more damge with a fully powered artifact, which is like comparing the damage with a ilevel 620 weapon to a late expansion one of ilevel 725.
So, maybe you have a point, but your text supports his point more than your own.