I have been playing over 3 hours in Driftwood and I concur. This area is really less polished than the previous one.
- The humongous scalling of the gear/enemies is ridiculous and unneeded.
- I lose almost all dialogs checks with 30+ stats (thanks to lone wolf) and 2 persuasion. I wonder if it is even possible to succeed the dialogs, especially if you do not play as a lone wolf.
- The level design of the map is a bit messy as you can go in higher level zones without any clue. It kind of reminds me of Cyseal in DOS1.
- The price of the new skills/gear is a bit too high...
- The loading of the map is horrible. It seems to be 2 to 3 times longer than the previous map. It hurts when you have to quick reload

I still have a lot of fun playing but my experience is not as great as it was in the previous zone.