All problems with Sanctum Trials

I've attempted ascendancy 4 trials 5 times now and will probably wait until it's nerfed or stated that it's as intended.

For starters, it's a complete rng fest. Part of what made lab good was that everyone (no matter how many people hated it) had to go through the same struggles. In both sanctum and ultimatum you can basically brick your run without a way to fix it and be forced to rerun this slop for another 20+ minutes.

It's also crazy that getting fourth ascendancy is gated behind 20+ min gauntlet AND a 10m hp boss. I've done countless sanctum runs in PoE 1 and I've never struggled. If I died I said unlucky go next and just reran it because all I lost was like 40c and sometimes that relic that doubled your currency so around 2d that I would make back. Now in PoE 2 you literally cannot finish the basic aspect of your build. Blood mage, if you go for the crit nodes has 2 nodes in total, because your first one is a debuff but I won't talk about blood mage here. Some of the ascendancy nodes are build enabling so why are we gating build enabling nodes behind a 10m pinnacle boss that most builds are not able to kill? Remember, you can die on it both from hp and from honour so if you're not on full honour and/or you're not playing the very balanced CI and you don't have 15k ES converted to 10k honour you're screwed.

I won't even speak about visual clarity and on death effects in sanctum because that must be a joke. On death effects were always annoying and they seem to be as intended so let's ignore that. Sanctum fourth boss' attacks are just invisible if you have any ability that stays on the screen like fireball.

Last but just as important thing. Sanctum was always a mechanic that required a specific build to run it. Hexblast, Brands, Icicle mines were the builds that people used to run it. Right now you have the choice between running sanctum on your build that's not made for it or run Ultimatum that takes more time, has more rng involved (you gotta drop 3 DIFFERENT fragments or buy them) and pray that you don't get screwed over by mods on Trialmaster. Extra damage as chaos? You're dead. Crit chance? You're dead. Etc, etc.

All of this combined makes ascending the fourth time unbearable and I don't think I'll ever complain about lab in PoE 1 again in my life.