Yeah, they brought in respecs sometime after 1.10.
I just don’t know how much of a time sink the essences are in order to do additional respecs after the original 3. To me the base 3 respecs feels fine for newer players who won’t have established builds and don’t just look up d2fans for instance.
If the 4th (+) respec is a pain then I feel that the system is still punitive enough. If it isn’t then I don’t like it at all. I just don’t know because by the time the Respecs were put into the ga,e I already knew what I was running, heh