Well I will stick to the metacritics subject: Giving a zero in most of the cases is a childish and raged action, D3 IS a good game, but then there are many factors that would reduce it's rating.

First of all it is a sequel, and quality (in many ways) is expected to be kept.

Either if you play cuz it is a sequel or not, you surely have some interest in the lore and a good story, and I could tell the whole story of the game from 4 snapshots I saw from the leaked cinemacts.

Then you have the simplified system, that totally goes against what the genre and the series alway built, plus the DRM aspect: lagging in a single player experience isn't acceptable, not going to mention not being able to play at all.

The game is gonna be good and enjoyable when it is totally fixed. It will still have a bad and linear gaming experience, but that is what we have been getting lately.

Now personally talking, I am happy that I have saved my resources for dks:prepare to die edtion instead of D3.

Atm the it is mostly a grinding+gear game, and I wish the staff would start working on how the game dificulty will be spread around 3-4 acts with 3 dificulties, instead of wasting time with MoC.

Other than that I've been worried about balance since the very begining, and the last patch is proof of how it is far from good. You have skills losing effectiveness too fast compared to some others, and as the OP said, hybrid armors look great but aren't a good option atm.

Regarding spamming, it is possibly the hardest thing to talk about in this comunity, it is a love or hate relationship, and other than traps and a random video where chris says about a cold snap CD, we have no further response from GGG on this topic.