Genshin Impact players salivating over artifact improvements teased by Hoyoverse after 3 years

gamesradar.com:

After nearly three years of tedious artifact grinding, Genshin Impact players are feeling quietly optimistic about the quality-of-life changes that developer Hoyoverse is teasing for a future update. 

The latest Genshin Impact Developers Discussion post confirms several upcoming quality-of-life updates and hints at more in the works. Firstly, the artifact inventory cap is being increased once again, this time from 1,500 to 1,800 in the 4.0 Fontaine update due in two weeks. 

Additionally, the big regional update will add eight more artifact sets to the exchange strongbox, letting players trade three bad artifacts for a new artifact of a specific set. The new sets will presumably cover everything up to the Sumeru region, including Inazuma's highly sought-after Emblem set. Destroying artifacts in your inventory has also been optimized to allow heaps of four-star artifacts at once, though this is one feature many players likely won't touch since they probably already tear through low-grade artifacts to level their five-stars.

More tantalizingly, Hoyoverse says "more optimizations for artifacts are currently in the plans." This includes:

Hoyoverse says it's still "in the midst of discussing specific plans" for these changes and will share more in the future. Many players are hoping that the changes for equipping artifacts, in particular, will lead to a long-requested loadout feature that lets you easily swap and share pieces across multiple characters. I've always gotten around this hangup by giving each character their own unchanging artifacts and weapons, but I recognize that I can only do that because I've been playing since launch. 

In a separate footnote, the developer says it's also looking at Genshin Impact's daily