Since chaosing is the most efficient thing to do in alot of situations it is indeed more of a gambling than actual crafting, but I can NOT confirm the stuff you say about always removing the best mod or having accuracy/evasion 80% of the time... to me it seems totally random (as it should be).
You might be falling for the confirmation bias (google if u dunno what that is).
Aboves are only few exemples, i do carft a loottttt
And since patch 0.1.1 it feel somehow worse while they stated it is supose to feel better
In patch 0.1.1 they also did some changes to map density and it is confirmed that they broke perfomance on some maps ( savanah is one of them), anyway this out of subject ...
I mainly put my observation there to see if some more crafty players experience the same