Ascendency point acquisition suggestion

Just prefacing this by saying:
Im a dad gamer, I dont have 5-10 hours per day to play.
Im not amazing at path of exile, which is why I play softcore.
I play SSF.

It should also be understood that in order to get the build defining (and fun) ascendency points, the player needs to run through arguably the most hated aspect of the game. I dont hear many, if any, singing the praises of the current set up. Quite the opposite.

My suggestion:
For the third and fourth ascendencies (at least) start us on the required floor with honor penalties, resistance penalties, etc... Basically, reduce the length of time for these runs.

Its an absolute mood killer if I spend 40-50 minutes running through for my 3rd ascendency only to die to some BS mechanic. I just wasted an hour there. As mentioned, Im a dad gamer... I dont have hours to waste. Its demoralizing. Im not saying trivialize it, but some how come up with a way to reduce the length of time we spend trying to get these points. Too long.

In POE1, Labs were hardly fun as well. However, doing your uber lab runs for the later points didn't take an hour. It was MUCH quicker. In POE2 not only is the difficulty amped up to infinity sometimes, it takes forever to run through it all and sometimes you die...thus wasting part of a night's play time. Thats not fun and isn't something that keeps someone like me coming back.

I don't mind dying over and over, learning as I go. I do mind wasting an hour (or longer) each time.