Mirage feedback (alas a bad one)

To give some context, I am a POE player for 8 years but not a "professional" knowing everything etc. I don't usually give feedback but this time...

I have done the Mirage league start and just started maps - and I hate the experience! Why? The mirage content is creating a huge discrepancy with the rest of the zones, making it a chore to play, for 2 reasons:

- the number of rare and magic monsters is too high/concentrated in a small area. You would need to have a fully finished build to fight them as the rest - but that's the point, first you need to get to that power level. To give an idea of numbers, I had some sewer zone where I couldn't even use a movement skill as there was no space where to point the mouse. Plus when you meet three or four rares at the same time, defenses that would be ok for the rest of the content become irrelevant. It's as if you suddenly had a three times as powerful mob to contend with. That gives the most bizarre experience where the rest of the content of a zone is OK or easy and the mirage subzone extremely difficult. With my build I did for example OK with kitava, but in a level 1 map I had insane troubles with the rares in mirage (that killed me several times and took me several times more to defeat them than the boss of the map).

- the impossibility to bypass the league content, which appears before you get into the mirage. Other league content is triggered (pass on abyss, clic for legion or breach, ...) but not this one: as soon as you come close you are attacked by the blue/yellow mobs and can't get rid of them (with +30 MS boots I can run through the mirage zone, but only rarely as they follow you beyond and to the end of the map). What is more in some instances it spawns where you are or need to go, and you can't avoid them (especially during campaign).

It makes this league mechanic very annoying. GGG needs to find a way either to make engaging this league mechanic optional, or tune it down so that it stays at a difficulty level consistent with the rest of the map/campaign area.

I hope this will help.