sucks and at this point, it sounds like just having to shop around is enough of a stress as it is! hope you're able to find something out there that works for you. it's dumb too because, at least in my experience, a car is one of those long term things that eventually people do notice where that's co-workers, friends, or family. it feels like eventually they all have a turn asking about it
preach friend, I haven't seen sirachi in such a long time now
here we come!
They aren't dead ended! Sorcerers have barriers through skills and don't even need gear for them. Ice Armor is a great utility to have. After you pop it, dealing damage will increase the barriers health and just having it active gives you 25% mana regen. There's also a lot of aspects available out in the dungeons you can earn so they're always available to add to new gear.
I don't know if you've seen it or not but I found a build for leveling as Fire with aspects on it that can all be obtained from dungeons. https://d4builds.gg/builds/e77f029c-a387-4eb2-a671-1e079afb1a8b/
I could also recommend Aspect of Might and Protector to help with survivability. I don't know how much you know about the game, but if you open up your aspect list and click on or select an aspect, it will mark its location for you on the map. Helps with finding them. Some are in higher level zones than others, so might not be available until later but start with what is accessible and it will help
Edit: Also, like others have mentioned, definitely drop it down to World Tier 1! I leveled all the way to 50 on WT1 with no regrets. I think it can actually be faster because you end up being able to kill more things faster.
on keyboard, there's a keybind to show item names again! it's alt by default, but not sure about controller. might be able to check the controls for it
this site exists and has some stats available like play time