Laziness is a cop out answer when people don't like changes.
Denying it is a cop out defense when the evidence is right there in front of your face.


The reason is simple. People didn't do them,
People didn't do them because they didn't bother making them worthwhile. They easily could have (just look at how much more XP DoH leves give for far less time/effort), but chose not to. Seeing how much SB pruned in the way of quest descriptions/journal entries, it is really not difficult to see why.