I watched the whole update and thought it was ok. I didn’t get any “corporate” feeling. Adam Fletcher even threw in a few of his usual jokes, so I can’t say it was “inhuman” either.
It was just an update like any other. They talked about the things already mentioned in the S3 preview article, and added a few videos and screenshots. I also appreciate the fact that they are striving to be transparent about the future progress of the game and on how they are planning to make changes each season from now on.
The quality of life improvements that are coming in S3 all look excellent to me and they are all things that many here have been asking for a long time. Improvements to itemization will take longer as we all know, but they are on track for S4.