This story is really underwhelming - it's opened to mixed reviews.

[Loggos]

From all of the post I am reading, there is one thing I want to say

"Shadowbringers just spoil you all badly"

Indeed, lengthy stories often begin at a slow pace and gradually intensify. Many of us are familiar with epics like Star Wars and LOTR, among others. Currently, this is slightly better than ARR was at its initial release.

The problem is not that shadowbringers was too good and DT is the normal level we have just forgotten about because ShB's quality spoiled us too much. Other stories didn't take as long to get interesting either. HW, EW and iirc even SB became interesting faster and had better pacing in the beginning. The pacing of DT on the other hand is, in my opinion, unusually slow.

As for epics, I do think that the first LotR book is a real test of patience for some people, though I'm not saying that makes it bad. But it's understandable that not everybody will enjoy a whole book of slowburn setup (even if it's good slowburn). Either way, slowburn is a valid genre in its own right, but it also has to be done well. And I think many people just feel like that's not the case regarding DT's beginning.