Did you like the Monolith system? I did. If GGG can iterate upon that system to create something better, I'm all for it. If it sucks, well it sucks and I'm sure the PoE community will complain loudly about it.
I don’t know if I didn’t like the system or just found the gameplay lacking. I felt LE got boring much faster than Poe.
Sure did(LE getting boring quickly). And I still can't put a finger on it. I think the game overall lacks endgame progression. Character progression, atlas progression, loot progression(oh god, fuck farming uniques for legendary potential to slam). You very quickly run into "this is how my character is going to play for the rest of the game".
I assume most of these systems they didn't specifically mention is because they're basically the same as PoE1. Strength would be life and melee damage, int mana and energy shield, dex accuracy and evasion. Gem quality would do the same thing it does in poe, affect some arbitrary bonus per skill gem. For ascendancy nodes I assume they didn't want to show anything in detail until the early access build is fully ready in case stuff changes, but it is surprising they haven't done like a one ascendency a day type reveal. I guess they're not doing the full time promotional campaign until the actual release.
