Good news on the endurance stat - the remaster actually fixed that old health scaling issue. Your current endurance no longer matters for past levels since health gains are now retroactive, so dont worry about maxing it early. You can safely focus on other attributes first if you want, the game will recalculate your health properly based on whatever your final endurance ends up being. That said, higher endurance still helps right away since it directly boosts your health pool, but its not that critical rush anymore. The formula basically works out to endurance times 2, plus whatever you get from leveling up. Maybe interesting - even if you level other stuff first, youll still end up with the same max health when you eventually boost endurance

Want to note though that having more health early on definitely makes things easier, but at least now its your choice rather than a must-do strategy. Build however you like, the health will sort itself out