I'm a player that has reached T15s on day 2 of both leagues, gotten multiple 90s and multiple mirrors worth of currency and gear, so I've played this game a lot. I want it to improve and do well, and I believe it still has the potential to be great IF the developers get their ♥♥♥♥ together.

HOWEVER, in its current state I cannot in good faith recommend it to anyone.

NO VISION AND DIRECTION:
The developers don't seem to know what they want for this game. They want it to be "meaningful gameplay" that is different from POE 1, so they slow down character speed, but they took the steroid mobs and mechanics from POE 1 like breach and delirium that favor kill speed. Why would I use your slow ass combos that take a year to set up when I'm being swarmed by hordes of enemies that bum rush me at the speed of light? If you don't want it to be like POE 1 then stop copy pasting ♥♥♥♥ from it then.

ILLUSION OF CHOICE/ LACK OF DIVERSITY:
Their passives and supports have too many negatives and conditionals. Everything has a cost. On paper, there are a lot of builds and paths to explore, but in game there's actually not that many, unless you want to play very sub-optimally and struggle even harder.

NO LOOT, NO CRAFTING:
"Path of Exile 2 is an Action RPG which is all about making powerful characters and getting epic loot." What loot? There's no loot and no crafting. You just pick currency and buy gear from others. Crafting is nothing but gambling, there's no player agency. It feels incredibly unrewarding and unsatisfying. Not to mention trade league economy being ruined by bots and price fixers. Play SSF you say? Good luck gambling for your loot there.

NO FUN
End game just feels like such a slog. Mapping feels like a slog. Setting up their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ precursor towers before mapping feels like such a slog. Games are supposed to be FUN not so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tedious and boring. I don't understand why they didn't seem to learn anything from their 10 years of running POE 1. It actually feels like they took a few steps back.

TLDR: Tedious and confused mess with no idea what kind of game it wants to be. NOT FUN.

Almost every game play decision is made to make it more annoying and tedious.

-Locking talent points between challenges that take HOURS to even attempt (one requiring you to do the same hour long challenge 3+ times to even attempt), only for the boss to be 10x harder than the rest of the challenge you blazed through and kill you.
-Dying and losing not only XP, but maps, modifiers, gears, time, etc.
-One shots from regular mobs while overgeared and leveled while 90% of other mobs tickle you. Of course, no combat log to reveal the BS that went on for that to happen.
-No drops, you need to rely almost entirely on the horrid trade mechanic where 95% of the time people wont reply.

It is like the developers just think of any way to be annoying an inconsistent, and slam those ideas into the game. If you figure out a way to make your character OP enough to finish this content, it will be nerfed into the ground and unusable, forcing you to go broke respeccing and buying new gear (because, oh yeah, nothing good ever drops). Not recommended.

There’s no point in writing an essay to talk about things that have already been mentioned by other players. But I'll just say what really broke me:

This game is extremely dependent on gear in the late game, but the gear can only be obtained through gambling methods—whether through loot, "crafting," or vendors. Without exaggeration, 99.99% of all the gear you obtain is useless. And if that wasn't bad enough, the drop rates are a joke, and the tools you have for "crafting" are a joke too.