I'm happy that the visuals have been very dynamic. In some cases since 4.0 the gameplay has also been more involved.

Someone said it already.

If you removed equipment from the game completely, nothing would change. This is the progression that almost the whole rest of the game follows. The game is purely about making numbers go up and playing around gimmicks.

PVP is ruined by bots as well as a lack of incentive to bring players to it. Eureka is just another set of numbers to increase. Deep dungeons are actually quite nice, but take way too long to complete, which is fine on their own but does nothing to fill that void.

Any semblance of horizontal progression has been entirely removed from the game.