Killed Eater of souls - Go to leave, end up at The Departing start

So I'm playing solo I did everything and struggled for a long time on this fight (Eater of souls). Finished it. Huzzah! Joko gives me his speech. I see the green star indicating where the exit is. Go towrads it. Loading screen! Hurray! My hands hurt, I need a break... wait a minute, The Departing? Why this again? Go up, good ol' Balth shows up. Sonofa! It's restarting me? Hours gone. Are you kidding me?! I play solo. I don't whine, man, but this sucked the life out of me just now. I did it! And now... I have to redo it. And I just dont have the energy. I'm sad. What. The. Heck.

Happened exactly the same way to me. So annoying. This is reminiscent of what used to always happen in Dragon's Stand when HoT first launched.