What makes the item system so bad?

[Athenau]

^ what he said.

Simplest solution is to make the affixes that aren't straight damage/defense/vit more powerful. Namely the CC affixes (change to slow, blind, freeze, stun, etc) the skill bonuses, and maybe things like movement speed as well.

I know it would drastically change my build approach if I knew I could get decent CC on gear, for example.