Yeah, its how the end of D3 was. You get like 80-90% power waaaaaaaay too quickly in then are meant to spend dozens of hours for minor upgrades like .5% at a time. Its much better to me when its like a very wide bell curve. This is like a drastic slant, almost vertical line up and right then a 1 degree grade the rest of the way.
I have a post on itemization here with a lot of the reasons I find look bland in this game vs its predecessors that people seemed agreeable towards here and on reddit.
It had a lot of momentum before this crap patch took over lol.
I’d love for the devs to address even a fraction of these issues, but I haven’t even see them consider any of these to be problems.