Unpopular Opinion: Exchanging items instantly across all your characters should be limited

So I know that some will disagree but I really dont like how in Warhammer 3 we can (with a few rare exceptions) instantly swap items across all our characters.

In Warhammer 2 there was a cooldown after unequipping an item, which was perhaps a bit too restrictive because it applied even if you tried to swap items between characters in the same army. However, when they removed this cooldown in Warhammer 3 it completely trivialized all the item crafting mechanics that many factions rely on to make gameplay interesting, since once you had one copy of an item, you could easily swap it as many times as you want per turn across all your lords leading armies all across the map.

I think that a compromise solution is needed where items/followers can be freely swappable between characters in the same army, but a cooldown should be re-introduced if you want to swap items across characters that are in armies which are far apart. If you know of a mod that does this, please let me know!

Finally, please dont tell me that I can just choose to wait between when I equip items, because game balance should not be something that the player has to achieve by artificially restricting themselves.