Is GGG for real with Trials being hitless? Do they hate melee?

Doing the Trials of Sekhemas is absolutely agonizing as a melee character.

Trying to go hitless on a melee character is infinitely more difficult than it is for a ranged character. As a warrior it's even worse, since you use armor and not evasion. lol for any kind of thorns build.

How does something so blatantly in favor of ranged become a core endgame mechanic? For the love of the game, please think of a different way to do Honour that isn't nails on chalkboard for melee and a breeze for ranged classes.

Both sanctum and ultimatum feel as if they have been forced into the game before they should have, and probably should not have been mandatory progression content. I would have preferred these as simply event nodes that showed up in the atlas.