This sounds like something a DUPER WOULD SAY :o
But in this case gold is super easy to come by. Last season gold was by far the limiting factor. I continually went out of my way to try and farm gold, because you’d eat it masterworking in a heartbeat and I never had more than about 400m. And I was very judicious about which items I masterworked, because you couldn’t keep up with gold costs.
I’m much lower paragon than I ended last season, have already done more master working than last season and have been above 1bill for a while.
Gold is just super easy to come by this season.