No reason to worry about an endgame

Most of your players will quit long before ever getting there. Nothing like having 29357209 deaths trying to reach the endgame.

PoE 1, you're supposed to feel underpowered as you level.. but it doesn't take days to reach the endgame where you start to feel like you can kill stuff. The worse and longer the grind, the crappier feeling ridiculously underpowered feels.