You aren’t alone, i love both old PoE 2 and the new version. We will probably get that vision back at least little bit when they release Ruthless mode for PoE 2

Last Epoch is close to this, it has full offline mode with a faction you can join that increases drop rates and allow for more target farming in exchange of not being able to trade, which in offline is not possible anyways

Yes. It’s still diablo, but actually good. They just like to add unique and new stuff every once in a while