There's nothing subjective about the difference between a game that can run fine offline and a game that becomes unusable when the servers are slow. No engineer

There's nothing subjective about the difference between a game that can run fine offline and a game that becomes unusable when the servers are slow. No engineer would say that. It is perhaps a bit more arguable whether a change in genre is subjective, but I still think the answer is no. There's no comparison between those and something like skill-tree changes which are common, expected, and even somewhat necessary for a series to progress. That's a ridiculous analogy. I get it that some people want to turn Diablo into WoW, but please don't make up insane arguments for your subjective preference.