By far the worst part of this prepatch to me is how they didn’t disable traits or essences so basically in season 4 you could only play your BiS geared main if you wanted to have fun and now in prepatch you also have to play your BiS geared main to have any fun.
That’s without even touching on the month late AFK simulator “event” for “catch up gear” that doesn’t help you get essences or even have traits so you’re still like 50% weaker than someone of similar ilvl that has everything from s4