The technical side of the game needs more attention than the content side

The play experience in 0.4 has been abysmal from a technical perspective, even though mapping feels good, the campaign feels great, and the game ecosystem is generally pretty healthy.

I have experienced a significant increase in load times over previous patches. Nearly every zone, every transition. Kingsmarch as a zone seems particularly troublesome, as my game usually locks zoning into kingsmarch at least once and has to be restarted. I routinely get up from my computer and do other things around the house while I wait on load screens.

When I do load in, textures are frequently incomplete, with monsters, ground effects, game objects, and segments of terrain missing for 30 seconds to a minute into the maps, sometimes never appearing. I cannot count how many times this league I have been meleed to death by an invisible pack of enemies, walked into an invisible delirium mirror, burned to death from invisible ground effects, and otherwise just had a miserable time because the textures in my map won't load up in a timely fashion on the first try.

Visual performance when things load properly has improved somewhat as advertised in the reveal trailer, but it is hard to enjoy when my maps are missing visual elements or I'm stuck on a load screen indefinitely.

It is clear that the current release schedule is heavily taxing resources at GGG, by the level of content and the polish of the code that is being delivered. I think there is the making of a solid game in POE2, but these technical issues need to be addressed more drastically than any lack of content or reward structure.

It is hard to even render an opinion on the state of the game design to provide feedback when I can't realistically play the game.

This is better said that my post just now lol. I too am facing almost every issue you described, and its only with these games. Never have any issues in other games like this with my current build.

I would add too my waystone device load time is like 15-20 seconds everytime so i can start my new map, things not loading in including monsters and textures, as well as trial of chaos in the last couple rooms if you have A LOT of affixs they sometimes dont load in properly (especially the big expanding red circle and explodes).