Always good to see an issue present from the very start of Early Access still present in the game as it approaches v1.0 release. Only 10 months to address this, make changes, try out new things.
The materials to evolve do atleast exist in the game where they did not for a time, but the results of evolving more often result in undesirable colour mismatches and salvaging the item offers such a bad return the item may just as well have been discarded.
Good to see the Early Access feedback really being taken onboard and acted upon.