I also found the story to be boring, I came back after a hiatus and was 3 scenarios behind. I found out the expansion would be gated 3 days before the early access, I breezed through the MSQ hitting esc every chance I got, it only got interesting towards the end when I noticed similarities to game of thrones so it slightly peaked my interest. Other than that, I have no idea what's going on, why? because I don't care as much about the story as I do about playing my character and leveling, and raiding, and doing fun stuff, after all, this is a video game and not a book. Give us a good story even if it's short just don't give us all this filler crap run around quest for some tea.

SE should have never entwined access to the new areas with the story. That was a very arrogant move on their part.