Put 70 hours into the game. Just started doing DZ today. Got to DZ level 38. Is this the game now?

I had a lot of fun playing the game casually to 30 with a friend. Started doing some challenge mode stuff then joined some dudes today to farm DZ EXP.

We literally just ran in circles for 4 hours killing the same spawns over and over again. In that time I found 1 of the new set items (shocker it was trash rolls) the HE items from DZ were all garbage compared to what I got from challenge mode.

The best part was getting killed a few times by a roaming group of DZ level 99 people. Yeah. 99.

I went from absolutely loving this game to not even having an interest to log in. There is no reason to seriously try the new incursions because everyone is just exploiting it. DZ so far has been running circles while occasionally getting killed by people 30 - 40+ higher GS than me and DZ level 99.

This isn't fun. Am I missing something here or has this been the same experience for others finally getting into the DZ?