Town Portal still not working as intended?

Hi,
I've done some cursory googling, and found that the current implementation of TP is not the "intended" implementation of it going back 2 or 3 years. It's still currently working as not intended, and launch is weeks away. Any idea when it will be working as intended, or have intentions changed?

The current implementation leaves a lot to be desired for me personally, and I don't think I'd be interested in playing an ARPG where your world state isn't saved after going to sell items especially since our inventory is capped, and when you come back you lose everything that was on the ground.