That's something I read a lot and disagree with. For various reasons.
1) A new season doesn't mean there needs to be new content. This is not a subscription-based game, and seasons weren't meant to be the announcement of major balance changes. Look at D2 ladder resets (which have been going on for more than 15 years now) and haven't seen any balance changes in... what... 5, 10 years now? It's one of several reasons why I'm against seasons - it gives players a wrong idea about this game. Keep in mind: seasons were only introduced to provide a "reset" for a fresh start, because there is no real long-term grind besides paragon (which almost no one enjoys).
2) There is incredible diversity in this game. Desolacer made some spreadsheets a while back just for some classes highlighting all the different builds - it's incredible! And they all feel entirely different to play. But if players even *perceive* a set to be performing half a GR tier worse than another set, they label it as "trash" and promote the "apparently strongest set" as the only viable one. Most recent example here was the necro and Inarius. People even made threads that "996 out of 1000 people on the leaderboards play Inarius, Blizzard, please nerf Inarius". A few days later Baskenater took #1 with a different set and build, with non-ancient items and no augments, 2 GR tiers better than the highest Inarius clear. I wouldn't be surprised if mid-S11 some new build emerges that changes everything for the necro. In fact, I would be surprised if it does *not* happen. Because 99.999% of players do not acknowledge and embrace the diversity. They follow the most upvoted cookie cutter build or the #1 leaderboard build, play that to death, and complain about "why is there only one set".
Solution? Lower your game by 3-5 GR tiers (hardly noticeable). All of the sudden, you have 10 builds available. Focus the one that you enjoy the most. With more practice the build will become stronger and stronger, and in the end you'll clear just as high as with the "cookie cutter build" (or close to that). NOTE: I know there are exceptions, like the MH builds dominating everything for the wizard. But overall, this game has much more diversity than people make it sound like, and it makes me angry if people get away with this nonsense argument.
Sorry for the rant - I agree with what you said otherwise (Blizzard seem to focus a lot on $$$ lately in their decision making, which makes me sad and makes me miss the Blizzard of the 90s which just felt like it was... better at doing good stuff). And it would be nice if we'd get more stuff for other classes frequently, agree with that as well. If I could buy stash tabs, my credit card alone would probably feed another developer to give us frequent changes
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