is it too much?

I played PoE 1 in open beta and really loved the game. I think legacy league was the last league i really enjoyed. And the reason I LOVE PoE 2 is because it gives that diablo 2/classic poe 1 feel.

But looking at 0.3 it seems the focus was just to add 100 new currencies/orbs/essences and whatever, and just create more crafting systems lol. Is it too much? Is this game gonna become another craftofexile, poe.wiki, hideout simulator like PoE 1 and effectively defeat the purpose of even making a sequel?

There's still 2 acts and 5 classes to be released, and Jonathan said himself this is the reason why Druid got delayed. That's a lot of core content that's being pushed aside in favor of what, by and large, seems like a bunch of slop content. The bosses and new maps and all that actual stuff is really cool, but seems that mechanically, most of what's in 0.3 was directly taken from PoE1. If all you're doing is copying stuff over and adding a few new classes, maybe you should have stuck with the idea of PoE 2 being an expansion.

I do understand why at a deeper level that people are like this, and why these moves have to be made for economical reasons, but at the same time it's still hard to accept that most people literally just write and say "gogoogoogagaga give me 10,000 ways to craft or i wont play ur game" and they actually strongly desire to sit in their hideout just figuring out the best process to get an item. Rather than getting rewards primarily from just actually playing the game, picking up drops, getting lucky, etc.

It's like card games. They're so awesome at first until a few years go by and you have 10,000 different cards from 300+ different sets and it's just not fun to play or even collect, it's oversaturated, like a wet soggy towel on your head. It's been my greatest fear and I think every patch will make it more and more of a reality, but I really hope this game does not become PoE 1 2.0...

Yes it's start to get too much. We are not at a full release any time soon and the game start to feel a bloated mess. The whole reason i started to play PoE2 was that it reminded me too much of Diablo 2, but now idk it's start to remind me too much of PoE1 - which i left long time ago, because of the bloated and over 9000 exaggeration stuff going on in the game. PoE1 is a troll game made for trolls.

Also with all the new stuff it starts to get hard to keep up your knowledge about the game, which we will end up again to look for 3rd party sites for info. For example some uniques don't just drop, they have to be found via crafting or some just drop in specific unique map or a specific way and that's just starts to get a litte bit much.

Imagine you took break from the game and have to le-learn everything you've missed - it will take you 1-2 days before you start playing the game..