Bro, this you?
I give you points for ostensibly posting on topic now, but with engagement being barely single digits here these days, it’s VERY easy to keep track of who’s posting what.
Nail on the head here. I’ve often very publicly wondered why D4 repeated the exact same mistakes as D3, and I think it’s because production changed hands / plans / etc. so many times, that the people who wound up with it at the end, were VERY far removed from the ground floor of what the original D3 + D2 were, and what made them great.
So when they said “we’re returning to our roots with D4” they didn’t understand what that actually meant.
That said, D4 is a LOT closer to D3 now and consequentially, I’m liking it a lot more than I did a year ago.