They did "fix" this in the sense that they made far more interesting filling-until-next-expansion quests for HW and the current SB post-expansion quests. But they haven't fixed it in the sense of going back to those quests and redoing them. All they did was add exp for most of them.

Unfortunately I don't think they're going to go back and condense those quests (I wish).

I constantly have to tell new people "don't worry it gets better". I wonder what happens to people who don't vent this frustration in their FCs and never get that opportunity to be told "I swear it gets better!!!!!!"