Side quest exp still feels too low.
The exp we now get from MSQ is great seeing how we no longer get stuck grinding a whole level to just progress the story.
However and unfortunately the exp from side quests is still discouragingly low.
At lvl 83 you need to do a whooping 41 side quests to get one level, which is about all the quest in a zone. So if you were to do every single endwalker side quests on one job you would probably end up at around 85-86 maybe even less, which is really low for something we can only do once and that can be more time consuming that just farming dungeons/fates (about 30 fates with 50% bonus).
One could say that the reward for these quests is world building, but then a lot of the same world building was touched upon and presented more thoroughly through the main story so it ends up feeling like the actual reward for doing these is just the removal of a quest marker.