That's not how it works and in fact no one is going into legends with full equip.
When you get killed your equipment gets damaged, so in any case you are very wary of what you wear.
Also, killing people at legends has its own reward of stealing the legend, which has a summoning cost.
To answer your questions:
Yes, full drop is still in. Obviously not on Arboreus, because that's what it was promised 6 years ago as you surely remember. On Syndesia the inventory is always lootable. The equip loot instead is based on Karma.
We currently have 2 planets. The third one will follow when it is ready.
The cities went through many different iterations through the alpha and beta cycle. They still follow the same concepts.
Most animations were redone compared to 6 years ago.
In short, the game has to compromise here and there to make the design more realistic. For example, the game isn't fully horizontal any more, but incorporated some vertical elements. The basic design though is the same.
Welcome! The game has definitely got a lot better in the last year.
On my archer which uses no spell channeling I usually rotate between 10-11 skills. If I had Wisdom I could also use all leadership skills.
This buff has gone back and forth in values many times, so probably some descriptions are lagging behind.
The correct value is 3% per stack.
Right now the general feeling is the opposite.
People find that this system makes orbs not useful, since it is too easy to get to max rank using only imbues.
In fact, I would go over a mixed approach. I would let them stack with each other, so that new players have a use for those orbs, which otherwise don't feel like a particular achievement.
At the same time though, I would not allow imbued proficiencies to contribute past rank 6, so that you need the orbs to reach higher values. This is to make sure that orbs keep being a sought after end game reward.
The good "mathematical " solution is to make them lose durability based on time spent in combat, but it is not intuitive so it isn't an overall good approach.
It does, or the cloth would have no heavy items.
The issue is that those durabilities were made before the current crafting system, which made all items roughly equally hard to craft.
The true problem though, is not that imbalance in durability values.
It is that a melee build will trash its armor and weapon very fast.
An archer will trash its bow quite fast but not its armor.
A mage will keep both its weapon and armor for far far longer than the other 2.
Hello,
we are right now in the last test, which will end in 7 days.
After that there will be the launch. The exact date though was not announced.
Added it to reports, thanks.
I believe that the two accounts are linked.
I'm only guessing, but last time Steam just launched the launcher with your Fractured account.
So clearly if a reward is on your Fractured Account, you will get it while on Steam, because it is the same identical account in the end.
Horse stats don't have a meaning at the moment.
Old habits don't die that easily 
Well, the most important loot is already directly put into the player's inventory.
At most I could see an automatic gold sharing option.
Hello and thanks for the report!
We are already aware of this bug with necklaces.
Right now horses are mostly useless. They are eternal so once you have one, you don't need another.
Coal is a rare resource, tying it to something as widely available as charcoal would be an issue.
However it's not like you use a lot of oil. One charcoal pile makes enough oil for 12 boards, which is 2-4 items.
At the same time, we currently have no real issue of resource scarcity since this is still a test and we are not seeing the correct amount of players. Once those are in and the nodes start getting exploited, it will become immediately obvious that there simply isn't enough coal to treat all the existing iron into steel or more advanced alloys. So charcoal will be used, and many items will be made in iron/copper/bronze.
I'm still around 
Just a bit busy with the test and the wiki at the moment.
Also, the devs spoiled so much that I don't exactly know what else I could spoil here 
But maybe I can think of something...