Stuck outside Gothic City map boss arena, red barrier does not let me enter

I was doing a juiced t17 Gothic city map, found the boss arena early and decided to first clear the rest of the map since the rest of the rares in the map would be lost if I die to the boss.
When I came back to the boss arena, the boss was spawning in but the red barrier that does not let you leave the boss arena was already up and does not even let me enter the encounter, making me lose out on probably 7+ t15 waystones since the map was corrupted with 751% waystone quantity.

All this boils down to questionable design choices and the elephant in the room holding back poe2's endgame: one death maps (on SC).

Why is there this red barrier? Just reset the boss if I leave his arena on my own volition.
Why does the boss and the red barrier not reset when I portal out?
Why only give me 1 life per map so I'm forced to full clear everything before tackling the more dangerous parts of the map? Same thing with breaches, rituals, etc.

As a poe1 player with over 9100 hours it's baffling how hostile poe2's design is, especially in the endgame, where the majority of players will (should) be spending the majority of their time.

Same case here. I mistakenly step near the boss area and decided i wanted a portal outside of the arena incase the arena border bug happens (i.e., cannot go outside arena even if boss is dead). Turns out the other way around can happen as well smh

Bug Report ID: #2753349683 - exact same issue. Boss arena inaccessible, logging out/returning to hideout/etc does not allow the arena to be accessed, party members could not access the arena either.

exact same issue. Boss arena inaccessible, logging out/returning to hideout/etc does not allow the arena to be accessed

exact same issue.... killed everything in the map and the red barrier won't let me enter the arena to fight the boss.

Same issue

same :c

+1

just got the same bug

I had similar but opposite. went to kill the boss first because I was there. after I killed it i cant leave the arena to complete the map....portal in/out. close open game but still locked in the boss arena and couldnt leave.............new years patch I hope.