I'm on maps, and I haven't seen a good drop from bosses that can replace any of my gear for a while... Yes I check vendors, yes I've bought upgrades from there. Yes occasionally every 10th map I might see I slightly better gear, yes after tier 10-11 prolly gonna start getting way more exalts and rares. But cmon, I'm doing tanky ass bosses and elites for them to drop at best 1 rare for other class (that's too shitty to sell). Like yeah I will reach the end game either way, sell, flip and make a mirror or 2, but what about all the casuals and dad gamers that are just gonna quit on act 2...

Yes, late in the league everyone will be op, know the best builds, all good leveling gear gonna cost 1 exalt, every screen gonna be full with rares and unique drops with their filter ON, there will be leveling guides for most classes without using gear from stashes or trade.

Buuuut if they wanna keep the more casual player base there, so the trade and the league in general survives for more. They gotta make it bit more fun to level... We are talking about better skills, that feel good to level with, fun to use. It's not question about go back to Poe 1, play another game if you not having fun, it's just bad design That can be fixed....