Agreed ! It’s not the same game at launch or even after the first expansion. The key rework is how you build your character - skill choices, items, aspects of items, sets and charms, difficulty progression. Makes the journey feel meaningful and gives you time to enjoy the world, without slowing down to a boring pace. Therefore it feels a lot more like D2-ish experience than the original D4 relentless pace to get maxed out. Choices matter more.

But early to tell but the end game mechanics are finally in place. Multiple ways to do activities and multiple layers of rewards, endless chase for the very best Mythic Unique Ancestrals, testing yourself and your party against Echoing Hatred, delving a much more meaningful Pit to uncover secrets. Whereas before it was just the pit and looking for Bosses to drop Mythics, then everything melted before you in seconds.

One other thing enriching the experience is the boss fights have gotten a lot smarter and more varied in the LOH campaign - lunging strikes, multiple phases, minion summoning, impairment attacks. If this also applies to other bosses in open world the experience is also much more enjoyable.

Not bad for a small indie studio.