I do have grim dawn but I barely played it. I am going to give it a fair shot. Thanks for the detailed answer! From what I gather, D4 is probably not worth the money for me atm.

I went back to GD to finally play the expansion DLCs, and followed that directly with D4. The whole time playing D4, I've been missing things about GD. I think GD is just better in almost every way except for graphics and some of the area concepts in D4 are also nicely varied. But GD gameplay, builds, itemization just all feels more fun.

That said, I'm still enjoying D4 for now, but not sure if i will create another class after i finish the campaign. I might hop straight to PoE2 instead (which i haven't played since it was first released).