Sadly this is true in a lot of ways. PoE has become "if you dont go meta you are left out" in a lot of content. I try to not complain much but with delirium its reached a point of, lets be honest, stupid power creep rush rush goo go goo speed. Its basically a cell phone clicker game most times.
They see a Meta Build using knock back so they nerf it vs conqs. But they leave in the 20 billion dps. They see taunt being used on bosses and enrf that. But leave in the 80 billion dps. They see freeze, nerf, leave in the 80 billion dps.
See what I am getting at? At some point GGG needs to not listen to the whiners who want to kill every boss in .00001 seconds. Fix and balance the game like it was when you could actually see a rare monsters name, and not juse click your quick silver flask, fire wildely or run by things while they shatter while never seeing what they were.
I used to enjoy rare names, now, do you see them? Does anyone?
Lets me honest, either they fix the game, bring the damage and speed down. Or the game will die.
No one wants to play a glorified clicker. The maps take 2 minutes tops. The whole game has become so mind numbingly quick that their is no real content.
No one pays attention to mobs anymore. Do they even look at any mods on enemies? What about delve? Just make the enemies colored square blocks, because thats all they are now. Red Block, Yellow Block. Blue Block White Block. Then we just click on them real quick and they die and drop loot.
Dont use art design on the maps either. Because frankly they take less than 2 minutes to run, no one is paying attention because you ramped the power creep to such extreme levels.
For me I do a little youtube, for fans and community. Sadly I will just have to do another game before long unless you slow it down. It reaches a point of mind numbing boringness. Cell Phone games are starting to have more depth than this. Think on that. Think on Diablo 4 and Torchlights new game. Would someone want a nice paced, grouping, lore rich world.
Or would someone like to click 40 times be done with a map then on tot he next to click 40 times and so forth? truly, think on it. Power Creep kills games, and it will kill any game that doesnt balance, even poe.