I am 41 years old and also H&S/ARPG veteran gamer.
I played thousands of hours of diablo 2. titan quest, sacred/sacred 2, diablo 4, less in diablo 3/poe and I like LE very much.
LE has a huge number of builds, skills and possibilities. Often when you find the new unique item you want to try a new build:)
Bad thing - online mode was unplayable, and now there is still a lot to improve. That’s why I can evaluate the offline mode - the main reason that I bought it right away - I am old dated and I value my time very much so as i don’t want to waste it at queues and loading screens.
LE has the one of the best crafting system, which makes itemization great, only set items need rework
Next great feature - SSF mode/offline faction - COF - needs some tweaks but generally very good idea - especially for me - i like to play a lot of different classes/masteries. Don’t like to grind one character to BiS gear.
I like only one endgame activity - monoliths, dungeons are boring and must the time U are searching for passage to boss. I didn’t push corruption too much because I must start from begin with each character. Arena needs to be shorter in time and/or difficulty should be rising much faster - but I generally don’t like such activities.
I don’t like that to forge legendary every time U need to play boring dungeon - for me U should unlock forging LP once per cycle - killing julra t1 - unlocks fp1 etc
Force to play campaign with every alt character made me give up on LE for now - but i will come back in future
You can see that the new classes and skills are much better than the old ones - but U can play them when not pushing too much
Game is bad optimized - Unity engine my old “friend” - especially online on high end PC there are FPS drops to 15-20 (5800x 32gb ram rtx3080)
EHG - good job - keep doing it