Edda's story =/= potd story, the part of edda story in potd can even be done before tam tara creating a paradox, which is why it's tacked on and overall unnecessary, also and this is a personal opinion, I appreciated the grim ending of tam tara more, instead of the happy ending of the post nybeth story
You keep misunderstanding what I mean. You also think I found the story boring because of what I say, which is not, I'm pointing out that potd story never really went about the place and it leaves everything up to your imagination (which is what you are doing by describing potd, which is only in the surface level gelmorran but the ones below aren't, that is confirmed by LL preceding Potd btw, said LL also said that we were gonna have some answers about what was in the final floors but we got nothing) which might be a good thing, but ultimately because of the reliance on either a character whose story was already done as far as we are concerned and a character which has no reason to exist in our world and we got no explanation to why that happened in the first place is bad storytelling.
I want to stress this out Potd story had to be about Potd, not about Edda is really dead story or The magical adventures of Nybeth in an unknown world. When all said and done we have nothing on the place but our suppositions.
Mwanwhile on heaven on high, we get to know the ppl responsible for the aethernetwork in the far east, we get to know how large was the Sarina rebellion, what exactly the tower is for, who are the confederate really and most important of all we have a recognition of the upper floors.
You are right about it beign less emotional, but it center the story on the world and gives it a place, something that I can't say about palace of the dead, although it kinda hints to the palace beign of the same origin.
Bosses: It is but using the weakest bosses as an example it would be like me using PotD 90 floor boss as a comparison to floor 90 of HoH, that said I think that the overall pace of the bosses are better than potd since you have sometimes 2 mechanics appening at the same time, while I can't say the same for potd, cept maybe Edda