Bring back melee as a play style

Since Apocalypse plus came out, the higher you go, the less you can play melee. At +20 there is no melee play style. You're stuck with a couple bows, artifacts, and/or rolling. You used to be able to run melee builds and it worked as a style of play. Now, powerful weapons are too slow, and fast weapons are too weak. If you use any past melee build you're required to run and hide most of the game in order to survive. I have tons of ideas but all I really care about is the feel and rythem of melee dungeon crawling. Give me something battle worthy!