Starting to hate POE 2 now

Did .1 have its problems yah, but as a casual at least it was playable and I could make characters that made me feel strong. I'll make some points of why I am starting to hate the game.

1. Defenses. As many people will point out it's ES or bust. EV is survivable unless you somehow get a crap ton a max health, which btw can only be solved with gear. Armor is still broken but then you have Streamers like DM who make it work by being so tanky it doesn't matter.

2. Monster damage. Monsters now hit way to hard. This was not much of a problem in .1 mostly because we had grim feast. But because it was so overpowered thanks to them making everything else under powered. Stuns happen more often and straight up now cancel out skills. It's why I see no one playing with whirling slash/twister because both skills are weak on their own. Between monsters hitting to hard and not getting knocked back by the skill I die all the time with it.

3. trails just suck. Again this is from a casual i have 477.8 hours played at this time. I can't complete my 3rd trial right now and I'm 73 on my overpowered lighting spear build. this goes back to damage again we take so much of it. You "should" be able to complete it around level 60, but you wont. Want to do Ultimatum? Nope because the one with 7 trials wont get you an ascendancy points. Yet the area level is higher than Sekhemas. So where is my freedom to choose. mind you I probably need to go in there over leveled and highly overpowered because tornado bird exists and has his extended one shot ability that chases you.

4. Gear. Welp trade still sucks everything is over priced and you cant get good gear to drop.

5. "crafting". "Crafting" isn't really crafting it is gambling. The only things guaranteed is the sockitables, and even those suck compared to the crafting bench. For example this resist runes the most you will get is 14% when I think in POE the crafting bench would get you 30+ for one resist. And only Body Armor gets 2. And the currency that you need to craft? good luck getting it for 1 because the nerf rarity into the ground and for 2 not much of it drops. Maybe at higher tier maps but I wouldn't know not doing the right now.

6. Punishing. This game lives to punish the players. Between all the negatives that they added to both Sek and Ult it makes it starting to be not work trying to do your trails if you are a casual. Then there is mapping you have to have at least a combination of 4 prefixes and suffixes on a map. I have done 3 corruption areas and only completed 1 to get my points for my atlas skill tree. If you fail welp no retries for that find another one. Good luck if you do and make sure your over leveled but even then you still might fail because of all the one shots that happen due to lack of good defenses.

In short .1 was fun lacked alot of end game but at least it was playable and I felt at times like a god. Now I feel like the monsters and more farming me in .2 and there seems like there is nothing I can do to fix it.

POE2 is currently not for casual players, only for determined FANS and bots...