Keep in mind, I haven’t played D2 in a while (6-8 weeks or so? Something like that). So I’m not as dialed-in to the feel of the game as many of you probably are. But it feels barely any different to me. If I hadn’t been aware of the update, I probably wouldn’t have noticed any change.
I played a D1 Raid last week, and D2 still feels slow by comparison to me.
Also keep in mind that I’m only playing as a Titan, so I can’t remark on the other characters.

...I sort of agree with this.

Just ran a few strikes. Didn't really feel any movement changes, damage changes... felt the same as they felt last night.

Weird.

Oh, great, now to be fed even more videos with Destiny logos pasted over the faces of dying characters in popular movies.

Keep in mind that Cruel and Claude both run Titans, which were the least-affected class. Also, they both tend to run rockets, which weren’t really changed much.

I actually played as a Warlock (though not Solar, so I didn't try out the biggest changes).

I’ll be hopping on in a bit, and I’ll run some Dawnblade in the Crucible.

Keep in mind, I haven’t played D2 in a while (6-8 weeks or so? Something like that). So I’m not as dialed-in to the feel of the game as many of you probably are. But it feels barely any different to me. If I hadn’t been aware of the update, I probably wouldn’t have noticed any change.
I played a D1 Raid last week, and D2 still feels slow by comparison to me.
Also keep in mind that I’m only playing as a Titan, so I can’t remark on the other characters.

...I sort of agree with this.

Just ran a few strikes. Didn't really feel any movement changes, damage changes... felt the same as they felt last night.

Weird.

Oh, great, now to be fed even more videos with Destiny logos pasted over the faces of dying characters in popular movies.

Keep in mind that Cruel and Claude both run Titans, which were the least-affected class. Also, they both tend to run rockets, which weren’t really changed much.

I’ll be hopping on in a bit, and I’ll run some Dawnblade in the Crucible.

First and foremost, the increased movement (both mine and the enemies') was noticeable enough that I had to increase my controller sensitivity so that I could turn my warlock around much faster. It definitely helped as far as mobility, but my aiming went whack, so I lost far more fights than I would have before. I wish there was an ADS sensitivity slider...

Anyway, I tried Dawnblade and Stormcaller.

As far as jumps go, Burst glide feels almost as good as it did in D1, with the major flaw being that unlike D1, you lose momentum if you keep gliding. You can feel the exact point that you start losing speed, so it's fairly easy to cancel the jump and bunny hop across distances. Definitely helped escape lots of tricky situations that I wouldn't have been able to before, as well as making it easier to have a far more aggressive playstyle, since you can easily flank enemies before they can adjust.

With the top tree for Dawnblade, having Icarus back often helped disorient the enemy quite a bit, especially when paired with burst glide, but I'm still horrible at adapting to the inability to feather my jumps thanks to the Winged Sun perk, which I would give anything to disable, as it doesn't feel any more accurate than before.

With the bottom tree, things feel a bit blander, and Phoenix Dive doesn't seem to work at regenerating your health half the time. The saving grace is that the Dawnblade super itself feels far more threatening, though I'm still terrible at it (even worse than I was with Solar Titans in D1!).

Going back to Stormcaller, though, and oh boy. If I wasn't already aggressive before... If feels like the only thing that could really stop me while playing Stormcaller was my hubris. Teamshotting is still a thing, but I also pushed in hard enough to realize that shotguns are a big threat now (the amount of Acrius's that I ran into caused me to reevaluate my face-first-into-Hell approach in some matches).

As far as Heavy ammo, there's a pretty constant supply now, but I died to rockets only once in the handful of matches that I played. Shotguns are the new Crucible Heavy meta it seems... At least for now. Never ran into a fellow sniper, though.

I ran one strike (Exodus Down), and used my Heavy ammo pretty often, but never really ran out, so I started sniping trash mobs, and still wasn't running out. It's pretty dang great to be able to run something other than Wardcliff coil for a change.
Also, did they add new dialogue to those strikes? I was hearing dialogue that Ive never heard before. Then again, I don't play that strike very often...

Anyway, the changes are noticeable for me, and while it won't bring me back, it's definitely a more fun, competitive game than before.

I ran as a couple of different Warlock subclasses last night, and found the burst of momentum at the beginning of my glide was so much more than before that it took me a few minutes to recalibrate. I was overshooting things a ton at first. Dawnblade felt hugely different while using the super - I was zooming across the map so fast that I nearly fell off a few times. And I definitely used that super more times than I'm used to during the strikes we ran.

My Nightshade pulse rifle might have felt a bit different, I wasn't as sure about that part. It felt like MAYBE it was doing a bit better on from-the-hip body shots than before. But that gun was never really lacking in the first place IMO. Might be easier to tell with a crap gun, but I dismantled all those already. :P

I'll have to try out the other classes and see how they feel.

I haven't tried Warlock or Hunter yet, nor have I gone out of my way to test and compare all the various things that have been tweaked. I just jumped in with my Titan and played for a couple hours, doing my usual routine through some patrols, public events, and strikes. I used a couple subclasses, a bunch of different weapons. And in that context, literally the only change I noticed was that my Titan's jumps were tweaked... and ironically, they'v been changed in a way that makes me feel slower (the "Catapult" jump now gives the titan a noticeable bump "upwards", but it appears to be at the cost of forward momentum). I'm certainly not denying that the changes are there, and I'm sure there are some changes that are quite noticeable (I ran across several other players who were using Linear Fusion Rifles in patrol, and they looked like they were wrecking shop with them :D).

Again, though, as you acknowledge, you were just playing as the barely-changed Titan, doing the same dumb Titan things that your kind usually do, using the same boring guns that you are glued to, despite your likely-overflowing Vault (which, now that we've had the biggest, and likely only major overhaul since launch, the whiny "I don't wanna delete these 200 guns because maybe the Meta will change and they be gooder!" people can finally go through their vault and delete the garbage that they've been hoarding, and we can finally stop hearing complaints about Vault space)...
You gotta mix it up, man!
I mean, the only times that I've loaded D2 up in the past couple of months was mostly to take some picures, and even I notice the drastic changes. Crucible is borderline a Special weapon-fest like D1 was, and pop-and-go tactics help create those so-called "Hero moments" again, assuming you aren't teamshot by a coordinated group.

I'm just saying that as a player who's been away from the game for a while, playing this new update does not feel at all like what I was expecting after watching Bungie's developer commentary video. Maybe I got too excited by what I was hearing, but in my honest opinion they substantially oversold the significance of this update, at least in some cases.

Yeah, that's why I pointed out that the "commentary" was just fluff to hype up some desperately-needed changes. You fell for it. What's the saying? Fool me ten times? Gotta wise up, man.

Or said another way, the fact that it is possible to jump into the game, play for 2 hours using a variety of loadouts and still not feel any real difference, is evidence that this update is relatively minor. I'd put the fact that it still feels slow compared to D1 in that category as well. I'm sure the tweaks are going to be a nice little improvement to the game for those who are playing and enjoying D2 for what it is. IMO, this update is not going to pull people back into playing if they've fallen away from the game, which is a shame to me, because that's what I was selfishly hoping for.

Right, and the thing is that folks like you and I are looking for a content overhaul, not a weapon balance. We need a reason to play, which you can't get simply from improving the gameplay itself. A miniscule sampling of strike-exclusive content isn't going to pull players back in. The gameplay is more fun, but the game is still lacking when it comes to providing us goals to strive for. We need new game modes (not just PvP), new areas to explore, new activities to do with friends, new challenges. We need that Curveball that DE was stressing the importance of...

That you were somehow hoping for a weapon and movement rebalancing to supplant these things to bring you back is kind of silly, no?

I dunno, I just jumped up and hovered like normal, and I was moving around faster than usual up there.

I guess it could depend which jump you're using? I THINK I'm using the in-between one, can't remember for sure right now.

3. My preferred weapon, the High Impact class of Pulse Rifles, just got an ~18% boost in damage output. +6.3% rate of fire increase. +12.5% damage increase. Weapons all over the sandbox received similar buffs. So, Bungie did just do something to make it harder for a 1 on 1 engagement to end in mutual retreat. And I can feel that difference quite clearly. (I would not have gotten my first Pulse Rifle kill in my Apertureing Destiny video with the rules as they were last week. Or the one where I nailed the guy in the rocks right before the Arc Strider slammed near him.)

I still haven’t tried PvP since the update, but I’m hearing great things about Pulse Rifles in general, and the Vigilance Wing in particular... which is hilarious, given I already felt pretty dominant with that thing. Looking forward to taking it for a spin in its new and improved form :D