Hey, I share your pain when it comes to finding a marketplace when you are still starting out as it raged me as well quite a bit. I still think that it’s one of the big issue of the game that needs to address before launching to 1.0. What I did though is to raise this concern and offer some suggestion here.
Well then, we have different ways to feel joy. 
Good thing the game offers a LOT of option to satisfy us all. If you feel accomplished in building AND gathering them yourselves, then you must have felt 100x more accomplished given that you said it’s grindy to gather resources. Still too grindy? Then why not spec to builder AND gathering resources which we could obviously achieve not too far in the progression system. Not too fond of gathering resources and just want to build? Then just buy it in the shops which I’ve seen couple of people do here in the forums. Isn’t it great the game offers this kind of variety of playstyle? Of course, there will always be some aspect of the game that will limit some type of playstyles but I hope you understand.
Btw, that’s a lot of censored words.