I ended up getting into PoE2 because of meat Pippa, and it's actually really fun. A big thing I didn't like about PoE1 was that once you got a bunch of minions as a witch the game became boring, but with all of the dodging it's actually really nice, and the dodge mechanics feel way better than Diablo 4. Finished Act 1 and it was pretty good, the only thing that annoyed me was the final boss as sometimes I'd randomly be one shot by an ability when the same ability other times wouldn't hurt at all. Not sure if those abilities scale or I was only taking partial damage but it was annoying getting close to a kill only to explode. Could be my fault as I just dumped points into minions and didn't take much defensives so I might be squishy as shit.
Minion use feels really good but I have no idea how spirit really works. I do like and dislike that abilities are tied to minions as sometimes you're stuck with dead skills waiting for them to respawn and other times you can poison off entire areas with no threat. I really like how you have constant but limited minions due to spirit as I will switch around dudes depending on the battle if I get stuck.
I hope most maps continue to be open instead of enclosed like the tree cultist area above the hunting grounds, enclosed maps are really boring as minion summoner.