Overall development of the game and builds

Game is headed in the right direction in many areas except builds are feeling a bit more constrained. You can't really make a good build without guides. It's not intuitive and everything seems carefully pidgeon-holed for you to build into what the devs have pre-selected. If you don't follow their ideas then you'll make crappy build. It's giving you the illusion of customisation but everyone just ends up with the same result after min-maxing/trial and error.

A good example is the reverse-chill stormweaver. The whole thing is designed to have a nifty "build of the week" showcase video some time this league to show off the "clever" combination of items that have actually been specifically designed to fit together. If you go on POE ninja you'll see most reverse-chill stormweaver builds are all the same. You can't really stray away from what has been intended. If you try, it becomes a crappy build.

I remember a year ago I could scrum up a viable build that I could call my own. Now there are no unique builds. You might think your build is "nifty" but it's probably identical to 3-4% of the builds out there right now.