Is PoE a good Game for new Players?

Never understood the push that was made to make the campaign harder. Why not add more options for advanced players, like we have at maps. Optional difficulty increase for fun and the chance at better rewards?

I would love to play through the campaign at league start with something like delirium in every zone. Or invasion bosses/metamorphs/scourge.

Best of both worlds, hard content for people who crave it, and an accessible game for new players. Bonus; Under-performing skills would also feel better to level.

The game is a nightmare for new players in all respects.

Builds are mystically complicated.
Loot and stats are mystically complicated.
Knowing what immunities and resistances you need is mystically complicated.
Some league mechanics are borderline impossible to understand (betrayal)
Some league mechanics are extremely complicated to juice

Progress is gated behind ALL kinds of things.
Simple map progression
Gear being next to impossible to find
Knowing what is worth something or not, since you NEED to trade to get anywhere meaningful unless this if your fulltime job AND you have all the game knowledge (aka NOT a new player)
Crafting is insanely complicated, and insanely expensive, and this patch made it WAY worse.

Honestly, the only game I can think of that is as bad for a newbie I have played in my 30 odd years of gaming is Eve Online.

I liked it though, I liked that there was a lot to learn, and a lot to master.

I used to be able to build a lot of fun specs.
I used to be able to do a varied and interesting endgame.

honestly i put POE on negative review on steam saying it was not for new players

then i saw the 25% positive recent review... And now this post

i can't decently ask a new player to play POE right now. I don't even know how to play myself

Harvest ? Killed
it could be fine if the game wasn't hardest each league. And i hate GGG for selling that they were working on Harvest, to discover that it was absolutely useless on 3.19

i made a delve character this league : i don't even see any delve players or records. Get an ice price, heralding minion and such on a regular pack of monster, you die. Delve ? Killed

I could play regular maps, but what for? Kalandra is useless
messing up a league is all right, i had several i hated and each time the next one was better - expedition, sentinel...

i guess expedition is still fun but it's quite limited. I saw Essence monsters or einhard animals more difficult than T16 maps boss, thanks to archnemesis

But if there's no point in playing a league, and standard isn't worth it until GGG continues to balance that game, what are we supposed to do?

Yes balance is going in the right direction but slowly, no players are going to be back each week to see if the game is playable