speaking from a dev perspective, it does truly seem like Jonathan is lost. Why is he focusing on fine tuning the existing systems in the beta instead of just vomiting all the content they have and then fine tuning it after ALL OF IT is in? A lot of the systems in Path of Exile basically only work through the sheer amount of the quantity of stuff (build diversity, general power level, progression, etc.)
For example, sprinting might look and feel weird as fuck with druid forms.