Why are people settling for an "ARR Tier" story?

[Fatch38]

I'm in the "ARR is better than DT" camp, ARR had far better characters, vastly superior world building, actually felt like something was happening and events were connected.

gonna play devil lawyer here (even if personnaly i have no issue with ARR story while i hated DT) but ARR story has a span of 50 levels to take time for world building etc not 10. and that's the main issue : rythm. i know that some ppl will say that shadowbringer tell a good story on 10 levels too but i would say that ShB may be the exception that proves the rule.