The scary part is they actually think majority of players enjoy it.
Yeah, I admit I have not logged in since late 2017/early 2018 so I am by far not in the loop on how PoE has evolved since that time. Yet I too highly doubt that the majority find this as a negative. Reason is that in my experience ever since the early days of primordial open beta there have always dominated at least three major trends that the ARPG grognards strongly gravitate towards:
a) going as fast as possible since speed is associated with efficiency which in turn is attractive to the min/max mindset.
b) min/max the fuck out of your builds and refining them to the purest form possible. Usually this translates to max dps with the absolute minimum required survivability, so as to not get killed. One of the earliest examples I can remember is probably one of those Kripps early discharge builds.
c) violently reacting to any attempt to curb their power creep, resulting in loss of players in the more extreme cases. As a example I can remember the time when Bringer of Rain/Soul Taker combos roamed Wraelcast and were hit with a hard nerf hammer in a big patch. There were other nerfs associated with the patch and I remember C.Wilson himself commented about the sharp decline of player activity and how people simply dont like it when you take their power away.
For better or worse this creates a perpetual loop that forces things to escalate to even bigger extremes as time goes on.
