Couple more patch changes and we might end up with a solid gameplay loop. Diablo games always seem to take a couple major patches to cook anyway
Good changes come.. one step at a time.
So far it seems the big thing that is missing from D4 is ladder play. Look at D3 for example, there are leaderboards for GR giving the player base something to be competitive about in the game. And I think that's the biggest thing missing from D4, I love the affixes on dungeons as I think it adds to the challenge and can make it more fun and rewarding. Introduce something to be competitive about in D4, that will go along way I think to bringing players back.
Meanwhile, the open world is still empty and useless, especially with this world tier system that makes no sense in a mmo wannabe game, splinting the small playerbase more and more (for the few that still wanna do something other than spam nightmare dungeons to be able to level up).The rush to sell battle passes killed the game as they were not ready (or not even at the correct moment in the game's life) for the seasonal model.