I'm comfortable asserting that early-game difficulty is being greatly exaggerated

Someone said ggg wanted to make end game still challenging and they ended up accidentally making the campaign a slog with less loot.

Now I'm not going to exaggerate and say poe2 is doomed and it's not fun to play.. but I'm doing t8 maps now and late 0.1 campaign, combat and loot was better and more fun leading up to thispoint.