GGG and movement speed.

I have a feeling that GGG doesn't know how to do movement speed in their games; or they intentionally hang on to an archaic idea that might sound good on paper but is awful in practice.

I've played pretty much every ARPG under the sun since Diablo 1, and aside Diablo 1 specifically, none felt as slow as POE, POE without movement speed on your boots ofc.
Running in POE feels like walking in other similar games.

Another annoying issue to consider is that any pair of boots without movement speed is worthless, in both games. No matter what you do, what build you go for, if you have no movement speed it's considered failed. And yes, a few exceptions always apply.
So in POE 1, boots without movement speed are trash tier. In POE 2 it's worse, because movement speed is very rare as an affix, trash squared.

I wish they'd just remove movement speed as an affix, and increase the default speed to a normal pace, like any other gane. And if you want to keep it as an affix, make it special, unique even, something you build around as a choice, not a necessity.