I feel like the currency exchange is kind of under appreciated

So I ignored the currency exchange till probably around map tier 5. I never really see people talking about it online and none of the content creators I followed did any videos on it.

At around tier 5 / 6 maps I was struggling to get the exaults I needed to really get upgrades. I was luckily sitting on one diving orb (wasted one on crafting which was dumb) and was wondering what to do with it. I had seen the currency exchange on Alva during the campaign but since I didn't have any currency so I didn't mess with it. Decided to plug in my divine and say I wanted exaults and bam. 100 exaults later and the game suddenly opened up for me.

I went from struggling with T5 to dominating juiced up T9s.

I also finally decided to make my own build. I went back to a character I had given up on and made an Invoker stormcaller arrow build that I'm absolutely in love with.

As someone who preferences a more SSF style run the currency exchange really enhanced my enjoyment of the game. I'm just surprised I hadn't heard more good things about it.

Edit

I'm going to add that I know this got added in PoE last season, but we see a lot of posts from new brand new PoE players appreciating things that were introduced in PoE 1 but I haven't seen any posts like that about currency exchange.