Quote Originally Posted by AwesomeJr44 View Post
I mean, you could argue that after EW's MSQ, that the bar isn't set very high considering how garbage the EW MSQ was for pacing, respecting previous concepts, and storytelling. The EW MSQ eviscerated any standard of quality set up by SHB by disrespecting everything that came before it. Oh that dude Zodiark that's been built up to be the most powerful primal? Yeah, he got completely trashed by the lv x3 quests. The final days that destroyed the ancients? Yeah, those happened because some depressed guy decided to chuck a twitter birb into space. The sundering that destroyed the unsundered world? Yeah, the person who did it decided to sunder everyone because they weren't suffering hard enough for her liking. Not to mention, the final days that previously destroyed an entire world succeeded in killing a total of... oh right, ZERO main characters. Literally everyone of value survived the literal apocalypse.

EW's storytelling has been pretty awful overall, not just in the side stories. So let's not pretend like the current MSQ is some shining bastion of quality writing. You might have been able to say that during SHB, but that's nowhere near the case since 6.0.
Actually, the overwhelming majority of the playerbase considers EW to be a great story. YMMV, but please stop trying to act as if you are somehow an arbiter on all things and hundreds of thousands of other people must be "wrong" because...well...you say so? EW's storytelling has been amazing, and the huge positive reception to it practically anywhere outside of the trollish echo chamber here is a testament to that.

It's totally obvious the quests were NOT written as role quests, but just got the role assigned to them after the fact.
Actually, it's "totally obvious" that they were written as role quests. There is a common theme for the role that carries throughout each questline. Healer role? You act as a healer in cutscenes in ways that only make sense as a healer quest, and main fights are specifically designed based on you being a healer. Ditto for tanks, dps, etc..