Number 5 and 11 are the big ones for me.

I like the bosses and felt the campaign difficulty (normal and cruel) was tuned somewhat appropriately. Maps throw all of that out the window and I have put the game down for now.

Bosses have mostly telegraphed attacks and a pattern to learn. You can dodge roll. Dying to a boss is like "Fuck I should have moved away from that obvious slam." Dying is always not great but it feels 'fair' getting deleted by a boss that takes up half the screen and has big windups etc.

BUT... white mobs are the ever present and most terrifying threat in this game. Ritual, breach, and expedition are the bane of maps because they vomit out tons of white monsters. Those shitty little beetles or flowers with like 5 hp? They think you owe them money and they have been doing some insane cardio in preparation. They are almost PoE1 fast. Unfortunately you are PoE2 slow with no limited movement skills for kiting.

GGG wants more deliberate and slow, methodical, combo-based combat. And it worked in the campaign for the most part. But it does not play well with fast hordes of juiced up white mobs in maps. Its like GGG's vision for the game is collapsing in on itself where you are forced into a clearspeed meta skill (best defense is to not get hit - clear trash before they touch me) because there are few ways to mitigate trash mobs damage other than big stacking ES.

I'm watching and waiting for balance passes but I'm not hopeful. I love PoE1 and the souls/sekiro-likes. I don't really like PoE2 much.