One of the most miserable modpacks I have played

Me and my friends have picked MC Eternal 2 blindly, as it looked promising despite being a kitchen sink modpack (which I am not a huge fan of) and oh boy did it disappoint us. The power scaling was all over the place, with mobs in the first 10 minutes of the game having upwards of 40 HP. We are currently in late mid-game and holy it's absurd. EVERYTHING has at least triple digit health with player equipment just not scaling well enough. The Wither fight was absolutely miserable, since it is immune to arrows and the Wither Reincarnated mod causes it to float away from the player, so that you cannot even hit it with a sword, but the worst part is the instant death laser. Cataclysm bosses (which are mandatory for progression) are also insufferable, as they heal up upwards of 300 health for seemingly no reason whenever they get a hit AND they deal outrageous amounts of damage. I had full Prot IV equivalent of Netherite Armor and I STILL got one tapped through a pool of 60 health total. A lot of recipes were also changed and resources were moved around, which is good, except for the fact the recipes are far from intuitive, with resources for basic and early items from a certain mod requiring pretty much mid- to late-game resources (looking at you Mekanism). Overall everyone is quite disappointed with MCE2 and we are likely to abandon the playthrough if things don't get any better.