Mirage Feedback - current state of the game doesn't feel good

I wanted to give my overall final thoughts before quitting this league. It was definitely one of my least enjoyable ones. I felt like i was forcing myself to play because I'm typically a 36-40 challenge person but I'm quitting at 20 challenges this league and here's why....

1) Current state of economy - chaos and exalts lost all value, only divines have value.
This was so easy to predict. Last league when T16.5s were the farm, chaos lost all value. This league deleting T17s you should've known this would kill the most popular trade currency. Is there nobody at ggg who plays or follows trade league??
Please fix this by adding a chaos sink or adding alternate recipes for meta crafts that costs exalts/chaos. The current situation allows those who farmed divines the first weekend to control the entire economy.

2) UI/UX design.
I don't want to hate on designers but I've noticed a bad trend in gaming lately and that's poor UI/UX design. Gone are the days of simple easy to follow menus that are very clear to the user on where to look and what to do.
The new atlas is an absolute mess. It's not clear to me where different maps/zones I need to focus on, where to find the things I need, and the dots are so small they're difficult to click on. I also still don't know how to open my map device without clicking on a map first in case I want to swap what's in it.

3) Atlas change to be like poe2.
Maybe I'm in the minority here but I would've preferred an end game where I can run the maps I want but rewards, astrolabes, eagon missions, and region locked content force me to run maps i don't like. This means ggg either needs to ensure most maps are maps people like (i.e. not corridor mazes that are difficult to traverse) OR ggg needs to allow us to fully customize our end game experience. Allow me to setup my own quadrant, my own eagon chain, and my own set of maps that get taken by astrolabe.

4) Bugs, lag, server issues, disconnects, crashes, etc... (i.e. performance)
This is one of the worst performance leagues for me. I'm talking tons of lag, stuttering, rubber banding, disconnects, and crashes. I don't know what's happening but ggg really needs to stabilize this next league. It's incredibly frustrating to lose progress due to these issues. I lost xp and loot because of this.

5) The league mechanic isn't really new or inventive.
I know so many people are enjoying mirage but when it was announced I felt like it was just a gimmick to re-run existing league content without actually adding anything new or inventive to the game. Most league mechanics actually add something to the game but mirage adds nothing. You simply go into a portal to re-run a portion of your map. You can't even control where the mirage spawns, which wishes you get, or which content you get to re-run. In Affliction we actually got a choice on what we juiced and how hard we could juice it.

6) Kingsmarch and Keepers tree staying core but mercs can't come back?
Kingsmarch is still feeling like a "requirement" despite the changes because mappers and boats still pull in items and currency passively and there's bosses and build defining items locked to kingsmarch. I'd love someday for kingsmarch to die but if it doesn't THEN PLEASE BRING MERCS BACK. There's no argument against mercs when kingsmarch stays. "mercs feel mandatory" well so does kingsmarch!
Oh and keepers tree literally prints currency and gg rare bases. This pretty much kills any trade potential from ground drops and makes me ignore ground drops for gear now because I know it'll never be as good as the tree gear. Why did the tree go core? Just remove it because breach is already super rewarding for items and xp (see fubgun videos).

7) Balance feedback
I complained earlier about how I don't like the feel of current deadeye and bow builds, but overall I want to praise ggg for allowing a ton of other balance like totems and guardian being meta again. However, the new scion is pointless and assassin still sucks. Please think about changing assassin again and re-think your scion idea.
The new scion only lets you use 3 uniques, this basically adds nothing to the build because other ascendancies can still use those uniques plus their ascendancies so all this does is free up 3 gear slots, which doesn't really do anything meaningful. I also feel rotating it every league is a lot of work on ggg for little gain. Nobody is playing this ascendancy and build makers say they don't even want to waste their time touching it.
Also right side tree feels squishy no matter what you do. Spell suppression and evasion don't give enough defense and you don't get a lot of access to life/life regen, armour, block, or ES on the right side. You're basically stuck with leech to sustain life and mana. This makes right side tree feel very squishy compared to top, bottom, and left side builds.