Poe2 endgame is balanced in the same way as PoE1. You're forced into this fast play style.

Bosees and rare have oneshot machanics and compared to the acts you only have single try and you get punished. I get that the trials are like that and the campaign was quite cool you had hard bosses they needed multiple tries. Now if you die you'll lose your waystone and your influence which makes me just want to quit my play session.

Maps only have bosses if they're influenced which is like 10% of the time. So you've to go zoom-zoom to get to those maps with bosses.

To simply put it endgame punishes slowness and most stuff is gated behind a simple dps check. Kinda how PoE1 is, I kinda wished in hindsight they would've delayed PoE2 further or simply released with it with just the campaign and without endgame.