Lordlava,
As always I can very clearly see your point in this matter, I'm sure there are a lot of players who have abused the system to gain an arch skill before they are entitled to do so or simply because they could not be bothered to do the quest themselves, however, I have in my Clan room 2 Ice axes, these are items that are not exactly easy to gain access to quickly (for example, an up and coming clan fight), but they are arch skill quest items, this is just a suggestion but would it not be possible to have all arch skill quest items soul bound so that items such as ice axes can still be used as a normal weapon but of course only by the character who found it and only for the duration of it's life span.