A few ideas of how to save D3

[MongoJerry]

It's a bit premature to say where the game will be once characters are geared to the teeth. It's also worth mentioning there has been a blue post hinting that inferno will gradually become easier. A statement I interpreted to mean that higher affixes like 50-75% damage will begin to drop.

Exactly. I wish I could find those pre-release developer diaries, but I recall one very clearly where they said that they were developing items and sets that would drop specifically act-by-act in Inferno. It was expected that people would farm Act I for a while, then progress to Act II to farm for a while, then to Act III, etc.

But why don't we see such sets now? My speculation is that Blizzard intentionally held them back while they see what exploits and imbalances people discover. They've already hot-fixed a few character skills that were unintentionally too powerful and hot-fixed a few chests that were too easy to farm. Once they're satisfied that the skill and farming exploits are fixed, then they'll start releasing those items that they have already designed. Once those items are released, Inferno will become a lot easier.