I’m sure you won’t complain when the player base is dead . . .

Except the player base has gone up with all the changes. So no, won't complain as it won't happen.

Second verse same as the first. People, even the so-called “hardcore,” complained about a meaningful lack of progression back in D1 as it relates to the end of the game and endgame content. They left. Then Bungie began to implement their own interpretation of what the players were saying in terms of player feedback. I don’t think people liked the drop rate for items in the vanilla version of D2, but Bungie takes feedback and then goes wholly in the other direction. They never respond to feedback reasonably. No one wants to “take ur grind away.” People just want reliable ways to progress through the content. Going up one point per item per engram (to the extent the engram actually drops at a higher level) serves merely to create the illusion that there is a lot to do. There isn’t; we just can’t do any endgame activities yet because we aren’t capable of doing so. Alas, I know that you will be too stupid to comprehend this. So long as you complete the content, that is all that matters, since you define your very own existence by your association with this game. Congratulations!