Poor implementation of the Dawn of the Hunt patch?

Today has been the most unpleasant gaming experience I've had since Blizzard announced the release of a mobile platform for Diablo instead of Diablo 4. This recent update didn't just nerf characters; it made them nearly unplayable. Instead of making a few major adjustments, they implemented a complete “board wipe” that forces players to likely start over from scratch. No one wants updates that require a total reset of the characters we've spent months developing; it feels like a complete waste of time.

It's one thing to nerf a character, but reducing damage per second (DPS) by over 80% across the board is excessive. I expected a fine-tuning approach, with cuts of 25% to maybe 50% in some extreme cases; this would at least keep the game fun and challenging. That way, I could continue to play using strategy instead of relying solely on a particular exploit. Instead, the developers have scattered Kryptonite everywhere, making it difficult to enjoy the game in its current state.

This was a poor implementation, so for now, I will be taking a break from POE2. I will likely revisit the game at some point in the near future, but I need a cooling-off period for now, as I'm quite frustrated. I hope the rough edges of this patch get smoothed out very soon. We have something very good here—can we not drain all the fun out of the game in its first few months after release?

Hopefully they will go up from here.

I think the same way. My char is now doomed to put a up a frost wall and a frost bomb and then run around for 10 seconds while kiting enemys before mana is back to put up another wall.
God forbid i meet one of the rare enemys (Forgot that akills name) that have that aoe on them with the blue ring that permanently does dmg. Cant keep them away. Its an instant death that i might drag out until potions are done.
I tried for 3h now to make that thing work again. Nothing works.

LVL 94 Infernalist Witch minion build worth about 60div
Logged on and after fixing the skill tree opened an easy t12 blue map. Got 1 shot in about 5 mins. All resists max so yeah great patch.