Diablo 3 is fundamentally broken

[Trevan]

If you mostly play solo, you can be generally immune from that. But then you'll get to some point in progression (say, Inferno Act II, where there's a gigantic jump in difficulty), and realize that you can only progress through hundreds of hours of farming gear. You will either like this setup, or you won't. To each their own.

Just posting an update now. I wrote that on June 6th. It's now June 18th, and I have acquired the gear to handle Act II - to an extent. I've adopted a mobile-Barbarian mindset, using both Leap and Furious Charge due to the necessity of running away from Act II mobs constantly. I have almost 900 resist all with War Cry and roughly 8500 armor, and can still get 3-shot by certain champion/rare mobs (spiders especially), leading to guerrilla-style tactics of leaping in, tanking something for 5-6 seconds, and charging out.

I've defeated Belial in groups a number of times, but there are still champion packs that, depending on the abilities, are simply parked and ignored for being unkillable. I recall one that made me laugh - Invulnerable Minions, Illusionist, Arcane, Frozen. Just completely impossible. Upon any engagement, the screen would be littered with arcane orbs and frozen spikes.

White mobs in Act III destroy me with ease - I have to use the hit-and-run tactics that I use on Act II champions/rares. And thus the cycle begins anew...

On June 10th, I killed Hell Diablo. On June 12th, I killed the Inferno Butcher. I then struggled a bit in Inferno act 2, then bought the following:
Shoulders: 30k
Bracers: 20k
Gloves: 40k
Boots: 50k
Belt: 49k
Chest: 4k (That was a steal for sure)
Blue ring: 15k
Helm: 13k
Two one hand xbows: 30k and 40k
My second ring, pants, and amulet are from hell difficulty
Total cost: 291k gold

I haven't bought anything new since act 2 inferno, and I am now trying to beat inferno Diablo in act 4. I killed everything on the way here except a few champion packs I just didn't want to bother with (shielding, jailer, mortar, fast for example).

Now, I understand you're playing a barbarian, and I completely agree they have that overgeared god or undergeared whipping boy problem. But I wonder, is inferno really broken? Or is it really the melee/ranged discrepancy and skill/class balance that is broken?

Of course, you can make a case they're interrelated, but I feel like if they worked on skill/class balance and improved some of the more trash skills, it'd have a better effect than just the across the board nerfing they're planning. As it stands, their proposed changes don't sound like they will change anything but make the gear standard a little more relaxed. The core inferno game play experience sounds like it'll remain the same.