1. I really have to disagree here, I like all the humor that is in this game.
2. I think the dialog is ok. I skip through most dialogs as well, the only thing that bothers me is that there's no sound with it. But I guess most important dialogs will have sound later on. The only games where I thought the dialog was really great are the Gabriel Knight games, but dialogs really have to be perfect in those puzzle games. I wouldn't want to say DOS is a boring game because of the dialogs. It's more the combat and the questing which for me defines this is a really solid game.
3. You got a point there, I think the best thing now is to collect as much junk as you can and then sell everything and buy epic gear at Esmeralda's shop. I bought 2 Flammenschwert (dunno why German) 87-141 dmg and 40 armor metal armor, those were much better then the one's I found in all the alpha quests. I discussed in another topic, you can already get pretty epic gear from 30 minutes in game, being lvl 2. I don't know if that's the problem of getting good gear or being able to already wear it in early levels, because the strength requirements are pretty low if you put many points in str from start. It's kinda weird that Esmeralda (and I guess all shops) will get better items as well as you progress in levels. You shouldn't get like really good items from shops imo. They should just be good enough to start off in that part of level. If you're really lucky you will find better items though. I noticed however that big bosses DO drop better gear, the big spider in black cove dropped 2 legendary items for me, so that complaint isn't really valid. Overall I'm not really bothered by it, but I don't like it as well. I also like everything the old way (fixed loot, fixed shop items), where in the first town you can just buy beginner gear only and get maybe something special from doing quests. It's a bit weird to reload a bossfight, because you weren't satisfied with the loot. But yeah, in most cases Esmeralda does have better stuff anyways.
