Area Scaling after new patch

I guess my progression might be a bit unusual in that I did:

  1. got to sacrament
  2. went and did 1st darak
  3. tried to do sewers and was low level and redirected to nameless pass
  4. finished nameless pass
  5. went back to sewers to do darak (level 13)
  6. New patch showed up and suddenly I can’t go easily run around to get healing items to make the boss that suddenly got way more health a bit easier to deal with because both areas are scaled to “dangerous/deadly”

From the patch notes it seems like I may have caused the whole game to scale to level 20 because I completed nameless pass even though I haven’t completed rats and raiders? I’m not sure because the changes stated don’t directly say anything about sewers scaling but it definitely changed. I had it at moderate/safe while I was completing the area. Is this is an oversight, or are the changes to area scaling supposed to heavily discourage doing nameless pass before the sewers? Or am I expected to have run around re-killing stuff a lot more than I have? I know that’s what people expect out of arpgs sometimes but I don’t really play games that way if I don’t have to.