I find it completely sad. (Questing)

[Nektulos-Tuor]

As a fellow Lore buff, and someone who spent weeks & months learning the Lore of EQ, EQoA, and EQ II. I can say this...

You are full of it.

This game is FULL of Lore. Brimming with it.
However this game is not Voiced like EQ 2 so it is easier to "miss" the Lore.

Quest Journal dialogue, FATE dialogue, FATE flavour text, cutscene dialogue, Sidequests, MSQ, and the NPCs in town, they all have little tidbits of lore.
Talking to NPCs between Quest stages, talking to merchants, standing by NPCs who speak as you walk/pass by.

The Lore for this game is RICH. It's one reason why I play this game so much. Perhaps because I play Solo, I spend more time indulging in the world vs rushing to the cap & endgame content.

But as a result I have a deep understanding of each City-State's political system, the cycle of Life & Death & the lifestream, how to communicate with Elementals & how difficult it is, how Summoning Primals works, the importance of Aether to the world, as well as the cycle of Umbral & Astral eras along with the key differences between an Astral Era and an Umbral era and their effects on the world, the behavior and breeding habits of Chocobos, the mindset & beliefs of Dragons, an insight into the cultures of Beastmen, as well as a history of each Class and the backstory/history of the Jobs.

That said, you have 1 valid point.
As of right now the only Races to truly get fleshed out has been the Wildwood Elezen. While Miqo'te lore has been touched upon and somewhat exposed.
Sea Wolf Roegadyn have been touched upon too.
However we have not had any true lore on Hellsguard Roegadyn, Duskwight Elezen, Hyur (both tribes), Aura (We know they hail from Doma), and Lalafell (both tribes).

I admit it is disappointing but honestly as this is a persistent RPG, as we get patches and expansions I expect more Lore to be revealed and added.

Everquest didn't start right off the bat filled to the brim with Lore. A lot of it developed and was revealed as time went on and the game grew.
We only had rough backgrounds to the Elves, Dwarves, and etc. It wasn't until I'd say around the time Shadows of Luclin hit that all the Races had a deep backstory.
EQ2 took place 500 years later so that game had a lot of pre-established Lore.

It has almost none of the little things that EQ had, and its side quests are filled to the brim with nothing special. For example, let me go to a random town in Gridania.

Sidequest 1:
Find 10 apples, no other information.

Sidequest 2:
Kill 6 poachers, why? Nobody knows, no other information.

Sidequest 3:
Kill 10 flowery things. Why? Because its a sidequest.

Talking to people:
Tells me about the most obvious thing of the town, but not why or when, or how.

Yeah, the game does have a tiny tidbit of lore hidden, but it isn't obvious or INTERESTING. Most of the INTERESTING lore is actually not in the game at all. In fact, I think some of the best lore for the game was scrapped when they remade it.

They, the OP, have openly stated in previous threads that they think the story is "dumb" and that they don't bother reading quest text and other such things and just click through it. So it goes beyond even not paying attention to intentionally and actively ignoring and avoiding it. They then turn around and make a thread like this maligning that there isn't any lore or story to the world. It's hypocrisy at it's best.

A lot of quests actually have no lore at all in them in this game. Sure some do, but I would say the majority do not.

Maybe in the Japanese version of the game, but not the English one. I heard they got rid of a bunch of interesting stories and romance options from the Japanese version.