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I don't care about "muh friction", poe items have inherent value in their stats or item abilities or currency crafting function, artificial barriers to human beings trading (that DON'T impact bots, who are logged in 24/7 and not actually playing the game) is trash. Less friction for players compared to bots is good. Now I can throw up my failed crafts and go to sleep to log in and wake up to a pile of divines and exalts without needing to be logged in.
it also gives the league more longevity. a month from now you'll still be able to buy shit from people's shops even if they stopped playing.
Any argument against asynch trading also applies to the currency exchange. No, relying on chink bots to break a div into 150 ex every time you want to convert currency was not better than faustus/ange. Needing TFT trannies taking a fee to bulk buy bases was garbage.

Going to people's hideouts and browsing their NPC shop and seeing what other stuff they have for sale like oldschool mmos or checking out a yard sale is pure SOVL and even if poe2 dies in a year it'll have been worth it for this system to be backported to poe1