I've finished poe1+wm few days ago, and I've realized that despite long time patching over years, to 3.7 version (!), it still had easy potd endgame, I was mostly autoattacking + sometimes few buff spells. This has made me thinking that it likely will happen similiar to deadfire, even more likely due to open world nature of sequel, which makes balancing more difficult.
So I've came to conclusion I need to use difficulty tweak mod, probably few mods and possibly some tweaks to keep midgame/endgame somewhat clicky.
Luckily there are some good mods for that on Nexus.