I've seen some suggestions about reworking the UV system and I strongly think that it is necessary. I still believe that a full rework of the system as suggested by some people in the forums is better, but this is the very least we should have:

Being able to transfer UVs from an item to another. This could happen in many ways.

The transfer itself could work like punch's "lock UV" system. You lock the ones you want to keep and replace the remaining ones with the uvs from the other item.

The price for it could be a ticket like the unbind ones, or the destruction of the giving item.

The restrictions should obviosly include the compatibility of the uvs between the giving and receiving items, like weapons can be only transfered to another weapon, but helmets could be transfered to armour or maybe shields. And MAYBE only allowing transfering between items of the same star level.

In my idea, the UV's slot position would remain fixed, you could not transfer a UV from the first slot to the second slot of some other item. I'm keeping it like this because, although I think more radical changes are better, i'm trying to be as much conservative as possible since I'm trying to make a suggestion that makes the system better but with the least impact on code and economy.