XP loss vs XP gain is too punishing

I hit 90 about 2.5 weeks ago. I'm now 93. I play maybe 5 hrs a day on average. I'm burnt out man. Just give me some f'ing XP and stop talking it away in such big chunks. I played like 8 hrs today. Started at 13% XP and ended at 8% XP.

This is frustrating to no end. There's literally no reward for my time.

I just want to finish this character so I can try something else. And no I don't want to just leave it unfinished. If that's what it comes to, I'll just quit to play something else that's more fun.

Inb4 the "git gud" squad arrives.

It serves a purpose so lvl 100 isn't feasible for the people that will just brute force their way there through a battle of attrition. I don't hate it, but the XP curve needs to be tuned badly. If you're not consistently clearing T15 and losing XP, logic would dictate a step back to T14 (assuming your build is in a good place). Problem is if you step back even 1 tier waystone the XP gain becomes glacial, and just feels like you're wasting time.

IMO by the time you reach low 90's everything else above that is just sort of a bonus, and not really needed unless you're trying to put together some giga-one shot build to farm endgame bosses and need every skill point possible. Figure that in the normal span of a league we'd be just about done and getting ready to start a new character anyway.

For me once the XP gain starts to become too taxing and progress starts to plateau I've just been starting a new character to try out as many as possible.

It's particularly bad in PoE2 because due to the nature of how mapping works here you will primarily run t15/t16 maps, some t17, and a few t18.
You write you are lvl93. Try lvl97. The exp bar moves like a fucking snail through molasses.
Even with Omen of Amelioration, which cuts the exp loss down to 2.5%, it takes like 10+ maps to gain that much exp, meaning that a death is a loss of 2-3 hours of progress even with the Omen.

Even without exp loss it takes a eternity to reach lvl 100. We're talking like 500+ hours. Why they deem it is necessary to add a time waster on top that does nothing but frustrate the player I don't understand. It adds nothing to the game but frustration.

"GGG doesn't respect your time" is a bit of a meme at this point, but tbh, it's true.