As an aside, people seem to have the misconception that any given stat other than STR can be 1 for 1 converted to STR within the confines of non-gemming. In reality, the game doesn't really work this way. A stat split actually increases the budget of the item, allowing a larger pool of numbers to be generated, within the confines of the existing budgeting system.
Items with just STR and STA would actually end up granting less DPS than str/sta/crit/haste. This doesn't really change the rather messy load of STA on a number of plate items, but the system doesn't really let you translate haste 1 to 1 to crit or to str if those stats are already present.
Then again, complaining about itemization in general is a sign of someone with rather limited intelligence, so it's a bit of a silly point anyway.
Also I baffled as to how this thread went to three pages.