You're definitely not alone. I've seen a lot of people chime in with specific strategies/party comps that make it supposedly "easy" but just playing the game in a straight forward way is incredibly difficult. My hit rate always seem abysmal, I attack for less than the enemy seems to, the enemy has access to tons of aoes and effects, and there's usually tons of them. I only got by because my player character was a ranger who could summon a bear and I had Wyll summon an imp, so that *somewhat* evened things out but I still found myself having to retry an encounter 2-3 times. More if I got especially unlucky on dice rolls.
