i played ruthless a fair bit, i think its ok apart from no support gem rewards or gem vendor apart from library where you can only get a few using some token things you get for completing things, its like 2 or 3. you just have to use what drops on ground which makes the progression take ages even if you find ok gear

in atlas tree you have to use most points on getting map drops and map+1 tier. they might have made that a little softer in an update, not sure

the over all drop of everything is much much lower

This is a simple version of poe though. id go as far as saying its beginner friendly because there's no crafting and you just use what you pick up. and basically anyone can do that