A few ideas of how to save D3

[Jester]

Variants are slain, or at least restricted to Hell difficulty. Skill can be switched around, but there seem to be pretty clear "bests", which are necessitated for use due to the extreme difficulty of Inferno, where they slapped 80% of the content anyone is interested in. Even playing through the game four times doesn't sound super interesting to me. I'd rather play a really long game once than the same one four times.

Why are variants slain? If there's an optimal skill set, then variants pick a sub-optimal one. Each variant is essentially its own difficulty curve - some are difficult to even get through normal, others perfectly viable in inferno (presumably, it's not like I've done it.) How is this different from D1 or D2 variant play?

-Jester