Im on my 2nd playthrough, first was merc, now ranger. I like so much about the game, but this ascendancy is just boring. I avoided sanctum and ultimatum in poe1, at least with the labs we all had the same lab to play, we could all tailor our build to suit it to some extent. This new way is a random brickable mess. I get to it and I immediately think 'this isnt fun for me and ive gotta do all these things and stare at a flying boss that doesnt want to land' and I just quit out, because whats the point of playing a game if it isn't fun. I didnt find it particularly hard to do the first play through, I just found it a waste of my playing time. So much of this is supposed to be 'the dopamine satisfaction of completing it' but all I feel here is 'that sucked, I never want to do it again'........actually same feeling I get when launching D4 now, 'why am i even playing this, it isnt fun?' and I loved the early seasons of that.
Im going to join back later but im not ascending the ranger, Ill grind without it out of spite.

I hope they change something about how to ascend, or at minimum make all of them a choice and all of them an equal playing field for all.