I wanted to leave feedback but there doesn't seem to be any proper mechanism for doing so (or rather maybe this is the mechanism), so I'll just share my thoughts here.

I don't want to be overly negative, but so far my impressions of the EW tie-in story content haven't been good. I just finished 5.4 and while most of the 5.4 content itself was pretty good, I found it very hard to be invested in anything that happened in the last quest, which seems to be the major hook for EW.

It's not so much that we're getting a villain we've already seen before (though that's of course not a great start, but it can work), it's more that we've gone from villains with nuanced and even sympathetic motivations (which I really liked) back to villains with cartoonishly evil motivations. It just feels like a step down to me. I'm sure there's some matter of preference here, but I'm just not excited for any of this, and the story is one of the main reasons I play this game. I dunno, maybe the motivations will be fleshed out more later, but this just doesn't seem like a good start; I'm not hooked, I was more rolling my eyes than anything.

It doesn't help that ShB was just so good. Everything from the setting to the story and characters to the smaller touches like music and worldbuilding (something games often overlook) was all just phenomenal. I want EW to be good, but this story so far ain't doin' it for me. I hope I'm wrong and it turns out great. I see other people are more into it, so maybe it's just a matter of preference.