I'm with you. I've been playing beta pretty solidly and it's not as bad as the doomsayers are pretending.
It's basically feature complete, the leveling is fine, most of the intro stuff when you hit 60 and choose a covenant is fine(I had a bug on a couple of skip toons) and nothing seems super overtuned that couldn't be fixed with a round of hot fixes.
Honestly if it wasn't for covenant balance they could have launched it yesterday and it would have been okay. At least in my eyes.
The only other thing is the maw... but that could be fleshed out in a .0.5 patch or something when everything else starts to die down, it's perfectly functional as is.
I'm hoping for late nov/first week dec at the latest because hype is already dying down big time, and there is no replacement for launch hype no matter how much better you think they're going to make it.