Seems like a lot fewer players and games now. More people selling their first characters too. Dunno if they're making a second run with more fun builds or not.

still way more than a normal ladder reset on previous times

this is typically how long ladders last

Hyping up Diablo4 maybe?

PoE, maybe.

So do people just go back to non ladder and play less?

I haven't done ladder since mosaic since came out (God that was fun for the first few weeks).

So peak ladder is just two weeks or something like that?

really the first 7 days, then it starts to die off, each week after. It's been like this for as long as I can remember. If you take a look at the 99's both HC/SC you will see quite a few people have hit 99 and thats the end goal for some in d2r. Others try to min-max and some are just here to trade. This has been the best ladder since the first one imho.

No one plays Diablo 4

7/9 people on my friend list quit playing D2R in favor of D4 when the new season dropped. Me and Druidika are still enjoying the new content at our own pace.

Ladder seems pretty healthy for a month in