Revamp Potential?

(I consider this idea to be secondary to Classic Maplestory)

Potentials are a love them or hate them sort of mechanic but what if the system was changed? Anything from nerfing the value of cubes (by putting in more junk lines) to adding back more unique abilities (status effects and skills type potentials) to total removal of cubes but keeping the potentials? What about bringing back the one where if someones character is getting pummeled it makes you feel happy?

How might the game look if gear could have potential but there were no cubes?
Or if the only way to reset potential was through crafting/ fusion?

It would be similar to old times, i don't see much without cubes, we don't have flames or 25stars so we would have the basic stuff(scrolls and stars that are now in the game), and why even make harder to get good lines? Do you even play the game? The cubes need less junk lines so you get easyer your potential, or maybe make a preference by the class of your equip, there's no logic behind nerfing the chance of good pots, there are already a lot of eqps with good potentials, making em harder to get won't solve your tigger with the powercreep maple is in now.

There are solutions, but so far nexon just removed 2 lines because they did in the status window as well, maybe in less than 1 year they could change the junk lines, but who knows.