It's about self expectation. I'm mostly doing Paragon leveling by choosing the best difficulties to run XP per hour, rather than to find loot. For example, if I wanted to hunt good loot, I'd go anywhere between Hard to Master but I'm running Torment I for the balance at the speed of killing while complemented by the 300% bonus to XP with my current gear.

It's just about the mindset, haha! I play to see my blue XP bar move, while whatever loot I find (especially legendaries) just comes as a bonus.