I get it dude, you want to feel like you're the smart cynic who's figured it all out, but not everything is a conspiracy. Again, relax off the cynic glue sniffing just a smidge.
Gushing Wounds was kept the way it was because it was discovered relatively late that it was an outlier, and they didn't want to nerf it and cause an outrage when there were no new means of acquiring replacements - it would just have meant you had to spend millions of gold on new pieces if you wanted to stay optimal. When the means of acquiring replacements was implemented, nerfs would be met less with outrage and more with light dismay.