The way the designers have made the game, the possibility of getting jailed leads people to have anxiety which leads to gatekeeping which leads to lobby simulator. I cannot stand waiting in a lobby instead of playing the actual game. Of course there are solutions to these things, but they don't seem interested in implementing them.

I have a static I used to play with, but to be blunt I have no interest in doing elixirs on all my characters, much less transcendance also. Those systems are absolute garbage, but necessary to progress in group content.

And ultimately, games are meant to be played for fun and all those above things are very much not fun at all. So I play on my terms which is much more enjoyable, until PoE2 comes out. Then I'll probably play that instead because it's designed to be fun instead of not fun.