Honestly, I've just accepted the game is no longer for me and I've been exploring other options.

There's no going back on many of the changes they've made. You can simplify something or make it easier without much resistance, but making something harder than it is will result in uproar, even if the end result isn't actually harder than other games.
They have a tiny job design team, can't actually fix larger issues and server and code issues severely limit potential QoL.
They also can't get a lot of things right. Criterion is not mythic+ and it's almost dead content, while Mythic+ was a big success. Island Sanctuary is dead 2 min a day content. Expert crafts this patch flopped. The team just isn't as good at making games as they were.

But, there still seems to be a crowd of people who love the game. So I've accepted that, it was fun for me while it lasted.