Pigeonholing: The game has limited our options by trying to prevent pigeonhole.

This refers to the fact that the devs have a policy towards not making anything too obvious of a combination to not be strict on players but this in fact is having the reverse effect, you can clearly see this when they introduce new skills into the game that make no sense with nothing existing in the game.

Lets look at the smith of kitava, you got manifest weapon which is obviously undertunned and by the looks of it there isnt a single weapon that actually has a synergy with it.

Or do you preffer to talk about fire spell on hit, apart of not having any better candidates of a spell apart of fireball, there is absolutely no support for spells while wielding melee weapons, there is a single node in the whole tree and it is all the way in the monk and huntress. Please explain to me how hard it would have been to make a support that increases or gives more damage to a spell while wielding weapon, or anything that actually interfaces with this, I just dont understand.

Another one, this one related to a belt unique, you got a cast on charm use, you would think there is anything out there, like absolutely anything to make this work even a little, but I am afraid it isnt the case, all charms procc off ailments which you for now cant guaranteed, or for killing rares and not much more, which is very sad to see, I really looked for something as there was an ascendancy with charms, but nope, would be too fun!!! better only have 2 or 3 skills per class to do content.

I want to be frank, I really like poe 2, I really like you have slowed down the game cause one shooting the bosses was not fun at all, but please dont be too afraid of pigeonholing cause atleast, at the very least, we would have a single option given an ascendancy, or an unique, or a skills, we would have more net option, but instead everything is so restricted because you are so afraid of stuff either breaking the game or pigeonholing the players, but right now the skill pool given that most skills are trash, is not good enough.