My honest take on the game so far.

As a new player ish player of the game, bought on 12th of January. Its a fun game, the campaign was very interesting and well balanced for the most part. Very steep learning curve but relatively easy to understand after a few trial and errors.
That all changed when I entered cruel as I became abundantly clear how the rest of my journey was going to be. In order to survive I will need to upgrade my gear which is normal with progression, how ever getting the gear would extremely difficult as I am 1 of those people who lands on the extreme end of RNG, eg: if it should take 100 tries to get an item I get it on the 101st try. I learnt that if you start late there is little hope in getting much from the trade as the prices are insanely high. All I want to do is play the game and have fun with it, but if I truly want to do that I need to play another game, Market/Trader simulator. To buy I need currency, to get currency I need to sell items. There lies a major obstacle, not able to get many of any usable items no one buy them or the lvl of the item is too low for any one looking for a similar item. The 1 saving grace I had was finding a few kind members of the community that either gave me an item to help out or a cool trade person that was not all about the Mighty Div or Exorbs.
Got to end game and its a mixed ball of fun and chaos, more so the chaos. Time for more upgrades and lvls, upgrades well that's gonna be fun, not. The item prices yet again was Universes out of my reach. At this point I have only landed my self 4 divs dropped through out my time playing so far. Had about 200 exorbs after trying to roll items for use and sell etc
Now it was a bit pointless trying to sell items as nothing I get is worth selling, its either too high of a lvl for lower lvl players or too low lvl for higher players, also my relationship with rng makes it unsellable because there are no Juicy stats to attract anyone.
But through share stubbornness and determination I made it to lvl 92. After getting wrecked by citadel bosses I finally got 3 tablets to do the Quest Defeat monolith boss, I dubbed him Ash man, got totally annihilated, we all know the story with this boss and the fight. I tried my 1st breach boss and simulacrum boss, I did the breach and simulacrum with friends and honestly we only managed to to the breach boss.
I tried looking for good videos on how to do these fights and I have to say there was 1 I noticed from the most of them. You go in with a super OP or Broken build and just nuke the lot. Why is that? because even with the recent changes of having the 6 attempts the mechanics are un fair, un balanced and un predictable or just not timed very well. Some classes I am not even sure stands a chance doing many if any of these activities unless they have broken builds or just lucky to have a super whale build.
I dont mind a challenge and End game should not be easy but it should not depend on Luck and Draw but on Skill. By no means I am a top tier player but I do try my best to learn if it means to Live, Die and Repeat, but at this point its not worth trying any of these end game activities because its a waste of time and effort. It can take up to a week to get 1 of these items to do a pinnacle boss or even longer and gone in a few seconds.
So then what do I do, when I get tablets to do Ash man I sell them in hope of being able to eventually afford an item to upgrade but the prices keeps going up and my luck keeps going down.
I will stop here.

All in all its a fun game with issues and there are many things needing a rework, balancing or complete overhaul but hopefully in time these will be sorted.