Feedback thus far from 22 hours.

Act 3 Silverfist is an insane fight with mobs respawning around the arena with every death, and your character respawning within range of Silverfist at the checkpoint.

I agree on a bunch of what you said. An increase in regal and exalt would give better gear to maybe take on some of these bs fights like Silverfist.

putting down this game until some updates come out post full release. Game feels clunky and un-fun a lot of the time. on Movement speed, what's the point in increasing it when mobs are so bloated and the spawns are so common that you're hardly ever moving forward in the first place? Think Dreadnaught Vanguard in A2. Took me multiple attempts (no checkpoints) over a few days to actually get through it, partially because i'm a filthy casual, but also because every single room is many enemies who all take time to kill, and even end up pushing you back a room or two, due to their screen-wide jump attacks, and mobs who spawn littler critters to attack you via flank.

Even then, as doable as the bossfights are, they just take...so...long. Hitting like a wet noodle + getting one-shot even with ~700 hp and ~250 ES in the bossfight in A2 makes for an either very long bossfight that isn't rewarding or a long bossfight cut short that you have to retry because you just died to something that you feel wasn't your fault. Yeah orright i might have a shitter build but at the same time, I play a lot of D2, and i had full creative freedom to freeball a build in that game and have it be viable until AT LEAST late Nightmare. In PoE 2 you're either a metaslave or a timeslave. I don't have 6 hours a day to optimise the fun out of the game. This game just isn't fun right now, it's actually a chore, feeling more like a job i log in to. And it's sad, because like OP i can see the potential there, and i LOVE some of the game feel and mechanics, just like i did with PoE 1. But this game just isn't in a good spot right now.

Probably the best feedback I've read so far.
I strongly dislike the huge maze-like maps, the dodge roll becoming practically mandatory, Sanctum and everything being unrewarding.
I'm gonna stop playing for a while, seems there's no point in continuing for now. Yea I bet I could finish the campaign but only the thought that I'd have to do this all over again for another character makes my stomach ache.