Does anyone feel the weapon upgrade systems discourage experimentation?

In every Souls game I play I feel very disincentivised to experiment with new exquiment since I've already put upgrade resources (e.g. titanite) into what I already have equipped and don't have enough to upgrade everything, which usually means I just look up on wikis which ones are worth investing in lest I waste limited or otherwise hard-to-come-by resources on something bad.

Does anyone else feel this way and wish they could just move upgrades between weapons? I get the idea of making people feel invested in a specific build/piece of gear but it always seems like a shame that 99% of what you pick up is just going to sit in your inventory since the base level version is too weak to even mess around with for the next area say.