Probably the reason this game is a bloated buggy mess

Apparently POE2 uses the same engine as POE1. So if you are experiencing crashes, which also happened in POE1, it's probably safe to say it will never get fixed. All they did was slap some lipstick on this pig of an engine and it created more problems.

My endgame is completely unplayable now and has only gotten worse as I progressed up in tiers. Almost every map I try I crash at loading screen or within seconds in a map. Log files give either errors involving shaders or monster files not found.

Maybe they can fix the hard crashes, but I highly doubt they will ever solve these other issues. There's some serious core problems in this game engine and they aren't going away. I'll cross my fingers for the new patch but I'm not getting my hopes up.