Remove Ground Degen from the game, it's a dumb mechanic

The optimal way to handle ground degen is to not play POE2. By that I mean, you walk away, go afk to get a drink, let it expire, and then proceed.

This is just a moronically dumb game mechanic that arbitrarily punishes melee characters. Doubly when there is so much screen clutter that you can't even see it.

Just remove it from the game.

I'm not sure removing it would be good.

Close combat can be a struggle for sure but damaging ground effects are one of the few mechanics that punishes ES more than life.

Theyve removed almost all after death/lingering effects already. Which one is the issue now? Poison/burning ground? Blood pools?

not removing, but scaling damage down for sure (~3-4 times lower). And maybe reducing ground coverage %.
It should be annoying, it deal damage, but not instakilling characters.