It's 4:30 PM eastern, it's 1:30 PM pacific. People have jobs and/or school, dude. It's not 2005 anymore when everyone was kids and could spend all hours of the day on the game and forums.
And just because you don't like how much a game changes over the course of 15 years doesn't mean it's dead, you dingus.
You will be very lost. There is essentially nothing that is the same as when you lasted played, other than the names of towns and continents and some npcs. If I were you, I would treat it as an entirely new game that you're just starting out on for the first time, and not one that you're coming back to after years and years.
Any character with a sealed item cannot be deleted, for one.
Aside from that, it seems more like it would be geared towards people who share accounts so I'm not sure why it exists tbh.
It keeps you from accidentally selling things too. Especially useful if you're the type to have a set of damage and drop gear.
If you're not on reboot and/or using this character exclusively to farm drops, I would go with the second one. You can lock your tier and first line and roll the second two from there. Not sure what else you ought to aim for, I don't main, or even play, a mechanic.