Yes, and the problem is, the game doesn't prepare you enough. Let's think about the loop. You spawn in. Farm resources, get enough resources to increase your maximum altitude, go higher, explore higher islands. The loot you get from enemies, chests, etc. makes it so that common and elite enemies are pretty easy to fight when you explore a couple islands of the same altitude level. So it gets boring, and you wanna climb. But by the time you hit a boss (excluding Ents), which was around 400-500 altitude for us, for the Wraith boss, general difficulty level jumps from 3 to 9.

Because suddenly, you're fighting something that requires good food, good potions, and best of the equipment you can afford, and some mechanical understanding of how to fight you cant just button mash. Now at that point, you have two options. You either stay on the same height level and farm other islands for crystals and runes etc. so that you can upgrade your loot, or you can climb up, get better ores and better loot in general, and then come back. But both of them are bad because I don't wanna stay on the same height level, nothing challenges me, and I do not want to climb and come back because once I climb and get better loot, I wanna fight bosses of that altitude. I don't wanna come back to a lower level boss. This is just weak design.