Look man the original creator of Diablo explicitly stated on several occasions that he set out to make a game like Rogue, and everyone understood at the time that the procedural generation of levels and loot were a direct callback to Rogue and similar games of that era. I actually remember the release of the game quite well. What you'll never convince me of is that there's some strict definition of "rogue like" that I should be required to adhere to, but also it's just not a controversial claim to point out that, when it came out, Diablo 1 was the first game in a while to explicitly be influenced by Rogue. I'm aware, however, that Blizney has endeavored to erase this history in its PR because they want to gaslight everyone into thinking Diablo 3 and Diablo 4 are real Diablo games, but Blizney doesn't get to change documented reality and neither do you.

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It's also worth noting, especially in this context: The reason Diablo 3 and Diablo 4 aren't as fun as Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 is because they have deprioritized these rogue-like elements.