Masterworking is not fun!

[valentino46-2148]

@Veracity-11673

Then the game would be too fast and I would complain about this in three weeks when I have “nothing to do” because gear progression is linear, simplistic, deterministic and absolutely 100% too fast.

The literal only thing pumping the breaks in this game are Greater Affixes and Masterworking. That’s it. If we remove either of these things it’s over and the game will die a sad, very fast, death specifically because it was too quick lived and paced so badly that before you could click an enemy it was dead due to your OP gear and some random power you didn’t know you even had activating

I disagree with you.
I’m 69 years old, and I played Diablo 1, 2, 3, and 4 with my children and grandchildren.
I’m retired, so I have time to play 10 hours a day, but the masterworking resource costs have become far too high for the vast majority of players who can only dedicate 2 to 3 hours a day to the game.
But there’s worse. A fundamental rule of enjoyment in the game is to discover an item better than the one you own. The current masterworking system creates the risk of downgrading an item with no way back given the prohibitive cost of materials. This is in total contradiction with the underlying fun mechanics of the game.
We could consider making masterworking difficult, but with the possibility of returning to an earlier version.