I've got 300 hours in this from the past couple of years and I'd recommend it easily. It looks decent, not cutting edge but does look modern and stylish. The levelling, configuring skills, crafting and finding items are very strong. The individual class skills can be configured a lot, lots of them can be switched between damage types, aoe versus single target, spammy or channeled or occasional big hits, spawning secondary effects or applying debuffs or gaining resources, etc. It's very freeform and you can really mix and match a few skills together in a way that feels like your own build. The drops are balanced so that loot drops always matter, crafting is really strong but items only have limited crafting potential, and the best affix levels are drop only so you need to keep finding good bases then try craft them up. The game is also very approachable, if you know the genre you'll be tinkering with your items and skills in no time and won't need a wiki.

Lastly it respects your time more than Path of Exile. If you want to throw yourself fully into an ARPG and want it to be as big as possible, PoE is still the choice because they've added to it and honed it for a decade. Last Epoch is great fun but isn't really endlessly replayable at the endgame unless you are seriously dedicated. You can target farm certain items, try to find ideal gear, play the mapping system and see how far you can push it, but probably after 2 or 3 dozen hours you might feel like you've done everything with this character, and roll a new guy or play something else for a while. That fits with the way I want to play, I no-lifed PoE years ago and loved it, but these days I want something I can dip into that does a lot of things very well, and then put it down before it takes over my life.

Edit: oh and the servers are swamped at the moment, you can play offline but if you are looking for online and/or coop it's not working as of this moment. Maybe today or tomorrow the servers will stabilise. I'm playing offline to avoid these troubles.