Hunting Ground difficulty ramp is absurd

First time poster, so please forgive any mistakes.
The Hunting Ground difficulty ramp is very steep imo. I'm a level 11 Monk. Till this point I've been doing ok. My main skill has been falling thunder and killing palm along with glacial cascade. I died a few times here and there and got through most boss encounters pretty easily with a couple of tries. Then in hunting ground I got wrecked. The apes bum rush while there are ranged poison throwing enemies along with worms. I must have died 20 times. Changed my skills/passives even went to a crossbow as my secondary. It helped a little, but it's still very obnoxious ramp in difficulty. Am I missing something obvious?

hard to judge, I feel like I want to say get some res or more armour/evasion rating

Yea ots ridiculous i've been playing with poe 1 vets who played from release date till now and they've all quit and started playing Diablo 4 absolutely no need for it, wouldn't be so bad if loot drops didn't suck.