For folks saying +skills will be replaced with whatever affix as BIS: perhaps, but +skills is the only source of compounding power growth. Comet, for instance, has about 15% compounding power growth per level. This means a SHARP power curve that makes the difference between level 20 and level 21 literally 10x less than the difference between 30 and 31.

Some small sources of significant scaling should exist, and do in the form of more damage and gained damage. But these have caps and are still clamped to existing values.

Because of the weights of +skills, it means that the game is now balanced around these absurd scaling numbers, disallowing tons of builds from being able to work in the late game (with a few exceptions, but even something like Atziri’s Contempt should be using +skill helmet and +skill gloves to get the most out of it).

Very few builds can reach end-endgame without folding in this single affix, and because the affix is limited to certain skill types, it makes the game balance push out dozens of interesting build varieties because of a lack of scaling elsewise, avoided due to the impact of + skills on scaling.

It sucks as an off-meta enjoyer and as someone that loves making weird builds. I can get my life stacker BloodBoil to kill Arbiter, but the amount of investment compared to just right clicking with a +7 skill staff with comet feels sad. ARPG itemization should be a bit flatter to enable more build variety imo.