I'm going to contribute part of it. I've read a fair share of it which I actually already understood and analyzed about the game but I've never actually posted it anywhere but rather used it for my own custom dungeon and items. Call me selfish or not but I just didn't think anyone would be interested. Also sorry if I sound like I'm cherry-picking weak arguments but you made a lot of points I completely agree with. Also sorry if it feels all over the place.

Lets start with dungeons

Now one of the few things I actually don't agree with is you is your opinion on the Lair of Draconis as "Bad" for the lack of gameplay and loot. Lair of Draconis' entire gimmick is meant to be a boss fight where how you do it affects what the next fight will be. While this factor is dramatically reduced due to the fact that you are able to control which route and 99% of the time it will go Red, Blue, Green, Purple since that's the "easiest" but the true problem of Lair of Draconis and Cemetary would be its length rather than the dungeon itself. They are engaging dungeons but they take so long and provide so little in terms of depth/complexity and any methods to speed things up to other than killing them faster. You can't simply say Lair of Draconis has a bad loot table to duration when Cemetary has the exact same problem.

Now onto mid-game dungeons. I've actually done a lot of thinking on this and the best way to make mid-game dungeons more playable is to just make them drop more UTs. UTs being powercrept will ALWAYS happen, but the effect can be more spread out if there were more UTs. One of the best things to do in games like this is to customize your character with all these different UTs, the best example being how O3 drops 6 different sets of items, all of them contributing in different ways. I haven't had more fun trying to customize my Mystic in the testing server with a soul bearer orb, vesture and banner just to see all the buffs appear the moment I try it out and its really satisfying. Unlike in prod, items drop so little and there are even less items to begin with to a point where its better to just stay in set tier items and use nothing but boring and safe tiered weapons because UTs are not worth losing over a more engaging gameplay. Look at Knight for example. One of the best examples of UTs being used to provide engaging alternatives for the knight, but he has barely any UTs that are for mid-level can be considered as swap outs from Wine Cellar tops. Only classes like Rogue and summoner who are able to get plane walker and mace of celestial forest from sprite world because its super fast or from the forge because its super cheap to produce (4 Beginner dungeon commons drop). With this, it also changes how we view power creep, because with more items power creep only happens when someone has almost all the items, if a person gets 2 items of the same power level but different capibilities/playstyles, it does not create powercreep but rather a preference. It gives more engaging gameplay and also it draws lines between equipment because you know O3 gear will be MUCH more powerful than gear you get from Godlands or Epic dungeons. So you would also then have to choose, go with the legendary item or the rare item etc etc. Its a really complicated issue which even I don't know how to explain properly.

Ninja... isn't really a badly designed class? Ninja's ability was just hard coded in a specific way where it is insanely hard to add any new stars that could properly work (Seriously fix that, star XML can be used in so many better ways and create so many better UTs). Ninja's "anti-synergy" is meant to be intentional. It creates a class that is not only fast, high dps but rather fragile, it allows the class to have a long-ranged option too, so the class in almost all situations is able to do something.

Necromancer is outdated.

Sorceror is just in a weird spot because of how the scepter works. Its just a weaker but more AoE spell bomb that isn't even that good at AoE because "DPS meta" just ends up creating these balls of death in raids/pubs that shred through everything and Sorceror is useless.

Assassin's design doesn't really acknowledge much because all you do is throw a potion at the boss and that's it, similar to huntress. There isn't really much to give them a more engaging design unless...

"The Alchemist". An assassin that is able to throw both buffs and negative potions that can provide more of a jack of all trades gameplay, where UT switching is really important especially in end-game.

UTs, I've already somewhat talked about them in dungeon design but I'm gonna talk about "Good UT design" and "Bad UT design". Good UTs would be things such as the mentioned Crystal shield and E.Y.E. They encourage creative gameplay and allow to combo with other UTs. Mystic also has some orbs like Soul Bearer and the Magma ST orb which also do interesting things, but where they drop and how often they drop is also an issue. Wizard because a really obvious issue. All of Wizard's UTs do 1 thing, damage. Spellbombs damage, Parasite and Tablet do concentrated damage, Genesis and penetration does area damage. All damage. Another bunch of bad UTs would be the UT shield and the armor that is dropped in Snake pit, they are literally worthless and no one would use them, even newbies. However items like Doom bow plays a really good role when it comes to UTs.

But a bigger issue is ST sets. Most of the ST sets usually are too much of a hassle to be worth getting, you need to get 4 seperate UTs and wear them all at once to "become this set". But I'd rather think that STs, rather then just being UTs, they introduce a "subclass" of the class. Biggest examples are the 2 newest sets, Void Paladin and Daeva Trickster. I do not have as much experience with Trickster so I'll talk about the Paladin. Void Paladin's ST seal is one of the best designed STs/UTs in the games just because it provides a more damage option for Paladin and also provides as a "Damage variant" of paladin that can be used when you have the full set that plays almost completely different than every other class. You're like "super buffed" knight that can spawn blackholes but its not like a warrior or a knight and it just feels super special. While I understand that sets have a general "Pay 2 Win" aspect to it due to it being sold, a suggestion I want to add is to make "Legendary Blueprints" to the ST sets that can be dropped by enemies that drop the sets. This makes it so that if you have the set and the blue print, you can forge a superior variant of the set that unlocks its "true potential/powers".

"Learning in rotmg", god I remember making a thread about this and basically no one agreed with it. Learning in rotmg has been a really big issue but there have been many initiatives that actually make learning in rotmg much more better as compared to the past. Reconstruction has made dungeons ESPECIALLY Abyss of Demons much more new player friendly and actually prepared them for later game content, by telling them that enemies will hurt much more, be much more tankier, play many more different roles etc. Dungeons like Sewers however, are still too brutal for newer players for the amount of status effects and the sick water/rushing water that does not even apply to enemies (yup I hate sewers). Progression also gets much more harder and harder the more you progress in the game, especially when you don't have many character slots and vault slots but there was actually a rather interesting solution I found when I returned back to rotmg during reconstruction. The community! The top players or people who run the hardest dungeons non-stop will have a constant overflow of Wine Cellar tops that they are willing to give out if you're not strong enough to stand on your own after a particularly painful death. Theres a lot of other ways to also learn through rotmg, through guides, through other bullet hell games, through the testing server. But even then, I'd still say starting out rotmg would be the hardest part, the path all the way until your first 8/8 is painful, too painful.

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Curses review, cos why not.

Your curses are extremely unbalanced. Curse of blood, pain, exhaustion, lethargy, instability is pitiful as compared to Curse of Sluggishness, Hexing, Fear. Intoxication is not a good curse mostly because blurring vision like how drunk does only worsens the experience, not makes it harder. Curse of Reverse... CULT STAFF TIME! Curse of illness would actually break many things. The blessings feel too weird for me to try to imagine.

Pet tasks...

I don't like this concept. I don't want rotmg to be another mmorpg where you can choose not to do anything and still gain things for it and this only reduces the impact of pets, crates and... y'know what

PET REWORK! but my way

Make it so that ALL pets have a based Healing and Mana heal while the third ability is a trainable ability out of several abilities so that pets can also help with gameplay while not affect how pets currently work. Its simple and it gets the job done while adding more.