Want to know what peak ARPG gameplay *should* feel like?

Go play 30 mins of Diablo IV Season 8.

Enemies survive long enough to attack you, but don't take forever to kill.

You have to use all your abilities for optimal progression = engaging combat.

You get punished if you AFK face-tank a massive pack, but not if you react to it, re-position / CC / kite, and kill them.

There is a middle ground to be had.

It is not 1-shotting the whole screen then teleporting away.

It is not getting run down and smashed to bits by mobs whilst spamming basic attack and evade, because anything that requires you to stop running for more than half a second gets you insta-killed.

Just my 2c.

Just watch a streamer. he played 30min D4, said "I cant play it anymore", left then go to PoE2 !!! :D

I feel the same, have to leave the game. There are lots and lots of reasons. But the combat is none of them. Still the best. Bosses are another story.