I'm sick of zoom meta. (Speed creep created bad combat and game balance)

Yes to elaborate on my point its simple, all ARPGs automatically focus on player speed because its a common representation of power

If you do content in a minute, you want to do it in 40s, that feels powerful and its an improvement which is where the satisfaction comes from.

However there is a difference between accepting players will run your content faster (ritual for example) and designing your content to be run faster (legion, delerium etc)

basically the first has linear scaling on speed the second has exponential scaling on speed and just makes everyone want to zoom.