progression feedback early campaign

Tried to start a minnion build this season. But early progression feels real hard(also with other builds but realy felt it with my minion build).

Was trying to kill act 1 boss took me like 10 min to get the boss to 50% phase 1.
Recleared the map 2 times for gear.
Looted a decent weapon with minion mods.
Then the boss was doable with glass canon spec. minnions die a lot but i made it.

It feels like the game is a little to item heavy early on.
I think it would feel more natuaral to have the spell lvl 1-5 buffed.
And item affixes tier 1 lowered. so the baseline feels more fair.

This is my personal take so i can be playing the build wrong.

No need to comment im bad at the game, i already know.