If there have been a thousand forum posts about balance over the last few months, that's still a thousand more balance changes than we've actually seen in the patch notes.
The complete lack of communication, combined with the developers' total disregard for one of the most important aspects of the game's long-term health, has convinced me that even logging in just to increase the active player count by one is more support than this patch deserves.
Steam says I have over 12,000 hours in-game. Ofc, that's super inflated because Steam counts the launcher being open, not the time spent actually playing. Even so, if a negative review from someone with that much time invested convinces even a few people to stay away, then it has served its purpose.
Rather than playing, I'll spend my time wondering which will release first: Elder Scrolls 6 or the next meaningful class balance update.
There's Dunmers and there's N'wahs