Difficulty jump from Rift 2 to Rift 3

Am i just trash at this game or is the difficulty jump from rift 2 to rift 3 insane? Rift 2 was so easy but the next level is crazy difficult and there's supposed to be 20+ levels of this? I was expecting a gradual difficulty spike as you climb up and certainly wasn't expecting it to be so hard on just the third level