Desiderius
Found your egg, Robinett, you sneaky bastard
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It's a very unfortunate problem of the D20 system that AB buffs do literally nothing to help you unless they move you somewhere from 20 less than the enemy AC towards their AC. 3rd ed D&D powercreep and then Pathfinder powercreep exacerbates it, the system really wasn't designed for ACs past the 30-40 range. You do need to stack everything to hit enemies, just randomly stacking spells/abilities in different combinations won't work.
It's fine. They stretched out the scale to get access to greater granularity but both sides of the equation progress at roughly the same rate. If anything it's the player side that gets easier as you go.
The main thing you need to do is cover the various categories of buffs so they stack. Once you're doing that you can find some things that stack within categories for various reasons (or are untyped) for the higher difficulties but covering the categories doesn't take that long to buff and is more than enough for Core.