My problem with getting no rewards from a Crucible run if you don’t make it to the boss is that it turns the Crucible into a time and money sink, and not in a fun way.
It is entirely possible to use up a bunch of high-level healing items, die four chambers in, and get nothing at all for the whole run.
Having to periodically switch over to another realm to farm for cooking ingredients to replace the healing items you’re using is one more thing that costs you extra time, and the game really does not need more of those right now.
I think it’d work better if you got a chest after clearing each room or something, but at a minimum there should be either cooking ingredients or enough gold to buy them dropping. Right now I feel like there’s a pretty heavy time tax on playing the crucible, and I don’t find that very fun at all.
I’ve pretty much given up on the new update after a day, which sucks, but the lack of rewards and constant drain on resources just make it frustrating to play for me right now.