"The food tasted just as bad yesterday! What did you expect!?"

I don't KNOW, I guess I expected it to taste better the next time. I assumed the first time was just an error on someone's part or a bad tray. Is that insane?
Covid happened 3 years ago by this point. You could feel it's effect on Shadowbringers as the patches also seemed to stretch for far too long. Why is EW shaping up to be the same?