Don't want to deal with Shards either but still want to enjoy the Worm-verse?
Powers don’t come from Shards. All powers are shardless, even those under the Shard category. Trigger events are replaced by Awakenings, which work in similar ways but do not necessarily require a negative event.
However, through some even stranger twist of fate, Cauldron still exists. Doctor Mother has the power to create vials that grant powers. Eidolon still created and controls the Endbringers. With no Entity or Shards in charge, the rules are slightly different. Powers slowly grow in strength and versatility the more they are used. The world no longer exists on borrowed time, except the one imposed by human nature that is.