You just discovered the most insane easter egg, boosted your chances to acquire every single item and forward it to any patch, come on.
YES, PRECISELY.
So, when this was figured out I did think we should just leave sleeping souls lie, ultimately decided against it, but let me tell you it's doesn't exactly feel *right*. For example, I'm pretty sure I have more 1.08 Highlords Wraths than everyone else in history of these forums combined. Do you think this feels good? Special? Nah it feels like just another day at the work.
Back when this wasn't known and jimsfriend gave me his 1.08 HLW, the "real" one so to speak, it was meaningful. And with that, small part of history is lost.
All of these drops do help with keeping motivation somewhat but they are meaningless long term. Considering how dead 1.07 shops are I might just give away all these items if there's any interest in them (unlikely). Only real reason why I think this was needed is 1.08 Stormspire. There's good reason why this item wasn't ever found legitimately (if there was, I haven't been able to verify it). Odds are just ridiculous without souls trick (you would get multiple legacy Zod runes in a patch that has worst rune drops in any patch since runes were introduced), and even with trick it's still in the realms of getting 1.10 lvl99 character time wise. If you did the math, depending on how you went about it it would take you 12+ years of constant playing without breaks/sleeping to have 80% chance of dropping Stormspire. So yeah, it's only for that one item and everything else is completely meaningless. You think I will care about triple digit amount of 1.08 Shakos by the time I'm done with this project (assuming I will ever complete it)?
It does feel somewhat wrong and I do think nice finds will become less meaningful in long term especially when terrorized zones are brought into the equation. Take it from someone that had real terrorized experience in 1.08. I'm not saying it's all bad, we're growing old and all, and there's always option to deep dive into one of older patches for everyone, but let's not pretend that D2R and D2 are same game.