Oh man, I had a very similar experience with WOTR, although I did not encounter anything that would actually brick my game.
I still want to love it and complete it as I've never actually completed Act 5 but anytime I try to focus to do it I remember just how much I'll have to go through, and ugh. Feels like theorycrafting a build is more fun than actually trying to play it out. I was left with the impression that Owlcat do care for the game but they also wanted to make more, make everything "bigger", stronger, and so on but in the end neither part received proper attention.
