I know in S4/5, people were also complaining that there were no seasonal powers, but in comparison to what we’re getting right now, it did feel the base kit of each class is way too shallow and there’s a huge reliance on seasonal powers to add the complexity and scaling.
I hope after S9, blizzard can rethink the strategy here and maybe push out a season that’s solely focused on updating the base game system with far more depth. S4/5 was sig more fun for me because I get to actually see a large amount of changes across of systems I’ve interacted with since D4’s first release; instead of a few multipliers here and there and touching only a small number of builds.
Now with each season only changing surfacially a few areas of the base game system, and powers more or less a repeat (there are only so many trigger mechanics), it’s definitely giving me fatigue.