I can’t comment on this because I don’t play PoE. It’s a convoluted mess I could never get into.
Unlocking the forge would have no negative effects. I still have to farm for 100’s of hours to get the items to slam. We don’t need to waste more players time when they could be doing something fun. Like playing a new character. Unlocking the forge would only have positive effects for the players and community. You could slam some item at End of time and now say hey let me create a new char now that happened.
I really don’t think a lot of players are thinking this through. Bypassing this bad mechanic that is temporal sanctum just improves the game and gets players to play the game more.
I rather be water boarded then do temporal sanctum. As someone else said…