GGG - Let us unsocket runes please

I was confused by Jonathan's stance on this when he and Zizaran were discussing it on Ziz's podcast. Since runes exist to "solve" early res problems, it seems like it's much better player agency to let us swap runes as changing out one piece of gear might unbalance our res.

Ziz was pretty adamant that removing runes would be a good idea but Jonathan told him he played it a bunch and it felt fine.

I don't think it feels fine. I think adjusting res is one of the most obnoxious parts of the game. Different ring bases drop so rarely that fixing it with implicits (like poe 1) isn't an available option. And having no way to target add resistances to items, the only option we have is runes.

And once you put a fire rune in your very-good, probably-not-going-to-replace-in-days item, then your next upgrade comes along losing you some other res for too much fire, you just feel frustrated and screwed. It's not player power. It's player agency. Please GGG. Give it back to us.

EDIT: For those who mention it below, destroying the rune is a perfectly fine option. But since runes are so plentiful I feel like that might be a distinction without a difference. Maybe that makes more sense when we get to the valuable soul core level, but at that point, I'm pretty sure my gear is good enough to solve res with normal stats.