Is there a particular reason why GGG hates anyone who even considers playing totems?

For example in 0.2 after 1 week play rate of Art ballista was 3%, Ripwire 0.5%
In 0.3 it went down to 0.3% and 0.1% respectively. Current league? 0.1% and 0.0%.

Ancestral totem? 8% -> 0.1% -> 0.0%

Mortar 7% -> 3% and if you actually look at builds it's 90% self cast grenades + mirage archer while mortar is rarely dropped for rares/bosses.

The same 7% -> 3% for Dark effigy.

The new shiny toy of Spell totem is sitting at 0.5%.

None of the totems were ever meta or even that good for the entire year. It's just niche some people enjoy, why are GGG so insistent on make them all into garbage or supplementary thing you drop once or twice per map?

Not everybody chooses the totem life. Maybe you, a totem enjoyer, should post a totally overpowered totem build somewhere and tempt them into that totem life.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3761391