Breach hive escape phase loot deletion on death

Escaping from the hive after completing it is kind of weird. Having the area become deadly and having us escape it for lore reasons is kinda cool, but did it have to be this rippy and made a maze ?

Also is there a point to make all the loot dissapear if the player dies in the escape phase ? Like I get it if I fail to protect Ailith, I shouldn't be rewarded, but why do I have to get double punished by losing a portal, 10%xp and all the loot of the last 5 minutes I spent successfully protecting Ailith ?

Yeah, the first time I did a fortress I got through the 24 waves just to die in the same room because every exit I tried was blocked and my life flask ran out of charges. The loot deletion feels extremely punishing, and if it's staying like that I'm skipping the fortresses every time.

I just had one where I found the exit instantly, shield charge spam, +30% ms boots, + quicksilver on the whole time. But the entire map was exploding in waves and chunking my HP through my energy shield (chaos damage I guess?), and despite how fast I was going and I didn't need to backtrack I could not survive the sheer damage it was doing to me. 2k HP 2.5k es.

The fact that you get do all 24 waves and make it to 5m before the exit and die and you get ZERO rewards is just fucked up.

I personally have little over 4,3k life + energy shield, 100% movement speed modifier and 75% capped elemental resistances (some spell suppression too but not yet 100%) and at tier 14 maps I get one shot by the first explosion after doing all the 24 waves, I even had the luck to have the exist in quite the straight line, alas even with that I was not fast enough.
I hope it gets changed somehow, initially I thought the explosions start small, only near the centre and it was my fault for not being fast enough, but my last attempt I got to be near the exit and the first explosion still reached me.

I truly hope GGG will address this T^T

EDIT: I now survived the last 4 towers I did without any major changes in my defences nor speed, maybe it was just some unlucky occurrences :>

We just should not be able to invest this much time and effort into something and get nothing if we slip on a banana peel at the very last step.

See my suggestion here: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3871921

Even Blight gives you a bunch of rewards if the core is destroyed. No one wants to spend 5+ minutes on this only to get literally not even a consolation prize if even 1 thing goes wrong.