Activision Blizzard is a hellhole of a workplace owned by Bobby "Satan" Kotick. They have been sued and settled multiple times for toxic work culture and serious sexual harassment allegations. Blizzard want to charge me $20 to be able to play the game one week early. The game is $70, and can go as expensive as $100 with battlepass. There will be ingame monetization. The game is MMO-lite and basically a grindy slot machine.
All I want is to go for an adventure, go dungeon crawling with my pet wolf frens, and you'd be surprised there is literally not that many games that allow us to do so.
I read some of the comments though and it comes down to whether you appreciate PoE style uber convenience enough for this to be a deal breaker.
Personaly I only played a bit of PoE years and years ago so D3/4 are not for me either.
I think it says a lot that I though PoE meant Pillars of Eternity and was very confused.