Ascendancy locked behind sanctum/ultimatum is unfun and a horrible idea.

I cant find one post saying what a good idea it is to lock a core part of every character behind the most unpopular mechanics. I hated sanctum league, played a couple days and moved on. Ultimatum is something I always blocked on the atlas in poe1. And if TOTA is the 3rd option... what the hell are you guys thinking? You do realise the game should be fun, not annoying and tedious right? I would rather run old school lab a thousand times than ever have to deal with sanctum, ultimatum or tota ever again. I probably just wont play poe2 in the future if you keep forcing us to do the worst league mechanics to ever come out of poe1.