Imo, grinding to get ascension points is present even in Revamp, not sure what the balance is there...
At any rate, personal opinion aside, you could go for relatively fast NG+ runs instead.
Start with stats via potions, go demon for higher lust limit, get a few magic multipliers via perks and/or weapons*, learn might, kill lethice. Since Might with enough multipliers literally doubles your Strength/Toughness, you deal really high amounts of damage regardless of stat limits. I've gotten to NG+ unlocked around day 80 (with most of those being dungeons just refusing to proc.... >_>; )
If you're still having trouble due to getting knocked out by lust points, gain more libido and learn the Demonic Desire perks, +1 lp/libido.
*These are Archmage, Grand Archmage, Grey Mage, Mage, Spellpower and like 2-3 job perks to unlock them(not sure which unlocks what sadly.)
Oh and yeah, that's a fair number of perks, but anyone ending the game is likely to be around 40 so that's more than enough perk points for what I'm proposing.
Commenting on the job perks part though, I heavily agree, there's a lot of job options and most of the time I picked them for higher stat limits as opposed to unlocking perks.