I’m aware of the ‘getting a recipe from a weapon’ feature, and I agree. With the ‘dismantle’ functionality, the tedious grind for a specific weapon would be somewhat mitigated - you’d only need to find the weapon once and could then focus on crafting one with decent stats yourself. Of course, you’d still have to grind for all the necessary crafting materials, but that should be easier than finding the weapon itself.
And I fully agree that weapons - or armor - don’t have to be ‘perfect’ at all. I’d actually prefer a ‘healthy’ amount of variation, too. Unfortunately, there seem to be quite a few people out there for whom everything revolves around min-maxing when it comes to gear. And of course, variety and RNG are the sworn enemies of all min-maxing. We’ll see how Moon plans to handle this issue in the long run.