Timeless Jewels and Keystones - a missed opportunity

I have a suggestion to consider; please let me know your thoughts.

Getting timeless jewels is a pain point for many players. They lock you into either legion or trade.
Some timeless jewel keystones offer incredibly interesting build potential that is locked behind a significant barrier. My suggestion is this: remove all existing keystones and make every keystone drop as a unique jewel. (Including keystones locked behind timeless jewels.) To complement this, alter the passive tree to contain keystone slots specifically for and limited to the new keystone jewel items. If they were placed precisely where current keystones are it would limit how much dev time/effort would have to go into this endeavour.

These changes would allow players to obtain a wider variety of build enabling keystones through whatever league mechanic they please so long as it can offer uniques; scarabs, heists, blight, ritual, expedition, shipping, etc.
It also increases the flexibility in the passive tree, freeing players from having to travel around the tree to various fixed keystones.

I feel this would be a positive change for the accessibility of timeless keystones while simplifying one notoriously confusing mechanic, that being timeless jewels.

Let me know what you think of this change. What will its ramifications be? What builds might it enable? Which would it restrict?

Honestly i'd be onboard with this, I don't really think keystone locations serve a purpose aside from artificial limits on builds and providing an interesting spot for other unique jewels to interact with.

It would be nice to be able to take iron reflexes without it wasting 10 passives though for example, I remember I used to get cucked constantly by EO being so far away from ranger in the past too.

This is a nicer solution you've gone for, its probably shit for SSF though and the legion jewels is 100% power creep, infact its just power creep in general don't forget the legion jewels alter everything in the radius.

You suggest farming timeless jewels is a pain (it is not) and in the next sentence propose adding to that pain. Interesting.

Id love the idea being more flexible on key stones.