Sizzle
Arcane
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Now contrast this with the Spirit Curse from MoTB - you gain the power to devour gods!
You could frame the Watcher in the same way: "You gain the power to read souls!"
Yes, but the question here is: which one is used better?
In MoTB, you use those powers all the time - and not just in combat, but as an important part of gameplay.
In PoE, your powers (before TWM) come in handy only a couple of times. It showed promise, but they didn't integrate it as well as they could and should have.
Take Maerwald. All those visions you had of his past lives. You would think that would be an important part of solving that quest - maybe using the knowledge you gained that way to navigate his shattered psyche and extract the info you needed. Or maybe even heal him. But no, it was just a badly presented foreshadowing of what could happen to the PC in a couple of decades if he remains being a Watcher.