Why losing the map, the waystone, and all bonus mods shouldn't be standard

One portal is great, XP penalty is fine, losing bonus objectives is unfortunately necessary otherwise softcore players can just suicide and farm the same breach over and over forever.

As someone else said the real problem is that the game is still insanely badly balanced. White mobs throw random spears at you that do as much damage as a boss slamming you. Party players need to be able to revive each other like in the campaign. Ritual needs to be increased in size or something. We need more options for all classes because playing for example a pure fire sorc doesn't really have any good options for CCing unless you toss in an ice nova or temporal chains, which still gets you easily swarmed.