This is a snapshot of the POE2 softcore SSF meta as it existed 9¼ days after the game went live.
SSF can be punishing and is quite a bit harder than the default game mode. Some builds do not do well in the game mode at all.
It’s based on data rather than opinion – how many of the top 1000 players by XP were playing each ascendancy? How many of those had reached level 92? There were 41 level 92+ characters in SSF at the time.