Just started the season: The Campaign is still soul-sucking

Gave the league a fair shot-- waited a full month and a half after the massive playerbase backlash for them to get the house in order. I guess they made some difficulty / drops related changes people asked for, the campaign has not been particularly hard for me as a generic lightning spell sorceress (with the caveat that the lack of meaningful player defenses means it's a glass cannon's world / rolling simulator, not really fun, but not "hard" either, just lame).

Just finished act 3 and won't be starting cruel. I play ARPGs for the end game, but I'm not going to make it if we have to do a full 25 hour campaign every league.

Apparently they shortened some campaign maps but it is hard to tell. This is only my second ever playthrough of the campaign and I can't bring myself to finish it. Even on my first playthrough, the novelty of the great action / graphics / boss fights had worn off by the end of act 2. By the canal part of act 3 I'm just thinking holy christ when will this end. When I realize I have to do it all over again in Cruel, I went on a booze filled bender for another 2 days to drag myself through it. Now I'm a new dad so that isn't an option anymore, so that's where I'll call it quits.

Game has massive potential if you guys can get over the "vision" and figure out what makes games fun again.