Player and Developer disconnect

As emotions run wild, I have a plea.

Please show us what you, the developers, consider the middle ground. I can rant and rage that things are not balanced all day long, but am I right or wrong? No idea. I know what a "good" skill can do, so I will inevitably compare everything to that. However what we seem to have now is more bad than good. Overwhelmingly so even.
So I would love to see at least a few showcases on the current patch, as in live, of the developers playing the game. Maybe what I consider excruciatingly slow paced is the intended pace. Maybe the idea is to require 15 hours to beat the campaign and get into the endgame. And any skill that does it faster is an overperformer and will be tuned down.

Show us that you are actually going trough the experience most people are in, and that its either intended or that its a horrible result of last minute untested tweaks. Show us that multiple different setups work. That you don't need full rares on your gear to make things work.

Right now even players that can make arguably bad ideas work are saying how they feel like quitting multiple times trough the campaign. Sure they don't, but they are creators who are literally paid to play your game. This won't work with the wider audience.

I don't think I ever had this happen with my friend group. Out of everyone who started playing, 2 people are left. Not even kalandra, not even expedition and NOT EVEN NEMESIS was this bad. If there is a vision, please, show us what it is.

Not gonna happen.

This is the new POE

We were expecting a new age of fun arpg's but GGG is chasing the souls trend.

Chasing never works.

The devs haven't been forthcoming for a year. The come out all smiles and lie straight to our faces, or leave out hard truths. The video teasers they provide are also false. They won't answer hard questions, they don't address core game issues, they double down on bad ideas. They don't even come up with new things, just copy/paste ideas from the first game but with the fun edited out.

I'm not entirely sure what they are thinking. But my suggestion would be: give up. Whatever your vision is, you can't do it. Let some other developers with knowledge and talent make the arpg you wish existed because right now these guys get virtually everything wrong and then correct in the wrong direction even more.