@MalagAste non Imbuable spell books make sense to me because they are only reason to do inscription bods , they are blessed and have no durability. Imbuing should make them at least cursed to compensate this power.
Boots as I see them are made to not allow 23,5/7 fishing , even it can be avoided with goat/slime . And on macro. You also can trash them boots or drop in serpent's corpse. It is not a big deal if you are at the keyboard and not AFK.
If no footwear at 120 skill -I'll agree. It will be good reward for eating that PS.
People were obsessed with footware by unknown reasons, and Kyronix finally made this pole.
If only poles available in the game will be vendor one and Xenrr - ok, pack new one with stats , SC , luck , whatever. But since it can be made by carpenter - one with stats , skills , FCR , etc should be carpenter's field. Or if vet reward will be not a pole but Carpenter receipe. Or as I stated before , target for shield transmogrify potion.
What you call grinding and RNG nonsense is actually playing the game.