Rollback before the Legendary essence/dust

[Hamsterino]

Fast forward to 2025, I recently bought a sun glaive from CalRG for 4.2mil. He was able to stack his characters with hero classes and house craftable gear sets afterwards. The update definitely helped him. Bob_Tschgerillo is another example after looting 2 orange legendaries his entire set changed similarly.

First, they both looted something, which obviously results in some quick upgrades at that early stage of the game, that's not new after the update. Although, I agree that the upgrades to their sets they were able to make are better than they would've been before the update.
Second, the update most certainly didn't help them in the long run. They might have gotten house crafted gear early on due to the changes the update did to looting a sun glaive, but what's next? Let's say he's a zwei now, a legacy used to be 2mil, now it's at least 15mil. If they don't keep on looting, that next step to those best-in-slot (ignoring the upgrades) items is a much bigger one now than it used to be. And even though that might have been one of the reasons for the update (less legendaries, more house crafted gear), it doesn't help the players and definitely didn't make long-term progression easier.