Your post would be true if not for 2 huge problems.
1) You cannot get gear good enough for progressing through Act 2 Inferno from Act 1.
2) Items are actually absurdly cheap. It's the combat that is annoying. Other than the super geared barbs, every character past Act 3 Inferno is a wizard or demon hunter, whose every fight is a 10 minute kite or a reset.
Inferno isn't a challenge, its a stupid chore. Kiting is really easy and boring, and there are certain affix combinations a class will NEVER be able to kill. Kite and reset is how people play inferno. Or corpse hopping to kill the super easy bosses.
The only reason people have finished inferno is because people exploited their way past Act 2-4 inferno. Blizzard closed those exploits, but the people in A4 inferno then did non-combative farming (chests+goblins) which produced the gear you see on the AH and allows nonexploiting people to progress to A4 inferno.
If that's not totally broken, I don't know what is.
1) You cannot get gear good enough for progressing through Act 2 Inferno from Act 1.
2) Items are actually absurdly cheap. It's the combat that is annoying. Other than the super geared barbs, every character past Act 3 Inferno is a wizard or demon hunter, whose every fight is a 10 minute kite or a reset.
Inferno isn't a challenge, its a stupid chore. Kiting is really easy and boring, and there are certain affix combinations a class will NEVER be able to kill. Kite and reset is how people play inferno. Or corpse hopping to kill the super easy bosses.