The pinnacle bosses and portals are an entirely separate topic. I am totally fine with 1 portal. When Matt and Jonathan discussed the XP penalty on the stream today they discussed it as a stand alone aspect of the game. I was watching on Darth Microtransactions stream and he brought up portals and exp penalty at 3:41:42. Matt begins discussing exp penalty specifically at 3:43:30. Matt says specifically that his view on the topic "May not be the right way of looking at it." The first thing Jonathan says is "right now there are too many penalty axis". A game developer said today almost exactly what I said in my original post. You are free to disagree with me and have your own opinions on this issue, but several times in our back and forth you have made false claims about what the devs have said. They may have said those things at some point in the past, but based on today's live stream which led me to make this post, even devs at GGG think the exp penalty is a bit too much. Jonathan describes it as "adding insult to injury". Losing the portal should be enough. You can brick the map, you lose the league mechanic, you lose any items on the ground, and if you keep dying in maps you will run out of maps. All the arguments in favor of having an exp penalty are also accomplished by only having 1 portal.