Wait, is THAT what is happening?!?? I couldn’t figure it out. WHY!?

Exactly. Even if people don’t play the sport they have tried to run/jump/catch/throw something so have context into what is difficult or not. It’s basically universal. eSports that context is different for almost every game.

Definitely better than the Commanders

Its hidden, but there’s a link to them from the post. See them here: https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/23976339/season-of-the-malignant-coming-soon?blzcmp=blizzard-news#Transmute

The “regular” ones look fine, but nothing crazy. A couple of the super ones seem potentially very powerful, but also some of them seem like trash.

I had the exact opposite experience. Things were going well as Firewall Sorc. I saw this thread and others and tried Ice Shards for some variety. It was horrible compared to Firewall, especially on bosses, I switched back after only a couple hours.