I realized why this game is missing the mark

Path of Exile 2 is not trying to BE anything. It’s trying NOT to be Path of Exile 1.

That’s it, that’s the problem. PoE 1 isn’t some mistake to bury and move as far away from as possible.
It’s the best ARPG ever created, and yes, it has many flaws.

PoE 2 was supposed to address those flaws, not scrap everything and start over. What happened? How did we get to this point? I’m in a t15 6mod map and an entire Breach encounter has as many monsters as a regular pack of enemies.

Every time I exit a map I have to ID items, disenchant uniques, vendor trash, salvage quality armours, refill my flasks at the well, dump the rest in my stash. Every single one of these tasks done through a different vendor UI. That’s a minimum of 6 tasks just to empty my inventory. All of which involve interacting with a different UI

The haters will say we just want a PoE 1 clone.

No, we want a PoE 1 SEQUEL. A sequel that builds on what made PoE great. Isn’t that what this game is supposed to be?