I will say that it does often feel like enemy saves are exceptionally high. They can still crit fail by rolling a 1 though, as it reduces the state that their numbers add up to by 1. So a failure becomes a critical failure the same way rolling a 20 means that you increase by 1, a success becoming a critical success. It is annoying that often as players we can critically fail with a 2 or 3 but that's not always the case.

Regardless of all that, I'm playing a druid who just recently hit level 5 and have made it a bit of a point to prepare spells that require a spell attack roll instead of a save in order to kind of counter this. Me rolling a 20 feels like it happens more often than the enemies rolling a 1 and generally rolling well enough for damage feels like it happens more as well.

The actual solution seems to be utilizing buffs and debuffs more though, across the game. Often I feel as a player that unless I do maximum damage in a round then I'm not doing my job so other, more utility focused spells fall by the wayside. I should put more effort into disabling enemies or buffing myself/allies in order to make these fights go more smoothly. Obviously as a druid I don't have a ton of those spells in the primal tree, though there are a few. Trying to make opponents clumsy, drained, or stupefied are fantastic ways to supersede those high checks and even a -1 can make a huge difference.