First: to all those folks saying “paragon should be capped”… you’re in luck, it already is capped! (At 20000, lol)
Personally, I don’t really care much about paragon disparity- I’m going to just play whatever build I like as well as I can.
And for those who do care, I’d suggest they just go check out the State of Set boards that DMKT and I keep- these take higher and lower paragon into account, so there’s not much advantage to having higher paragon, or disadvantage to having lower paragon.
But, for the overall good of the game, it seems to me that they could have implemented a sort of “soft cap” on paragon, simply by adjusting the scaling of the XP required for each level. It wouldn’t be hard to make paragon levels increase in XP requirement faster than they do now, or increase faster and faster as the level increases.
With a system like this, you could theoretically have no paragon limit at all (not even 20000), but in reality, you might see even the most dedicated paragon grinders (or cheaters) kind of leveling out around 4000, 5000, 6000 paragon. Just depends on how you set the scaling.