Don't get me wrong, I want to give this game a chance, but it seems like an exact copy of Diablo 3.
I gave this game a chance as an alpha/beta player, and immediately uninstalled it. It was beyond a disappointment. It was an embarrassing sham like Diablo 3.
One of my biggest sticking points was the constant adversion to allowing eight players per game, instead of the four currently, and the tech tree is literally an exact copy from path of exile. I don't understand why they keep deviating from a game, Diablo 2, that is the golden standard.
Why do they keep playing with the tech tree? Why do they keep playing with the stats tree? It's almost like they don't want to acknowledge Blizzard North's success? Why kill off Diablo, Mephisto and Baal? They're demons, and the soul stone should've been recovered to free them and allow another good series instead of this Inarius / Lilith soireé.
What am I missing?
I don't really see where it's an exact copy of Diablo 3 since it's vastly different in class design and world design. It sounds like you just want a clone of Diablo 2 which I don't think would be as accessible to most players. Diablo 4 isn't perfect by any means but no, I am not disappointed with it.
Did you happen to play through the campaign? Just curious because some of your story concerns ...well it's hard to say without spoilers but let's just say Blizzard has already mentioned they are working on a couple of expansions. And we also know there is a whole other continent to explore.
I am definitely more on the casual player but have been pleasantly surprised with the amount of endgame content the game has launched with - it's certainly more than either 2 or 3 did. But I understand there are concerns about the grind from 70-100. I think it's off to a good start thought and it will be interesting to see how it develops over the years. D3 today is not the one that launched at all.
What end game content is there? Running the same nightmare dungeons again and again? Don't get me wrong, I like the game. I played my necro.to 100; but praising it for the endgame content when there is exactly none, that's a bit rich. D2(r) is still the king.