*Possible EW Spoilers* Yoshi-san, Why Force Binge Through MSQ All At Once?

[Rhysati]

I don't think this is the problem. I think it's the wonky pacing of the story. It starts off at a snail's pace upon a glacier and then starts to pick up after the first dungeon, but then you suddenly hit a wall again and need to ramp back up. Then it gets really exciting and interesting and back you go to walking around talking to people for hours on end.

The previous expansion's pacing was spectacularly done. This one I've mostly stopped caring about the story because every time I start to get hooked and into it, they shut the door on that part and tell me to go back to escort quests.

[RyuDragnier]

I don't think this is the problem. I think it's the wonky pacing of the story. It starts off at a snail's pace upon a glacier and then starts to pick up after the first dungeon, but then you suddenly hit a wall again and need to ramp back up. Then it gets really exciting and interesting and back you go to walking around talking to people for hours on end.

The previous expansion's pacing was spectacularly done. This one I've mostly stopped caring about the story because every time I start to get hooked and into it, they shut the door on that part and tell me to go back to escort quests.

The pacing here feels like how things were back in ARR, HW, and SB. You are entering a new region, people don't trust you, you build trust, then it continues. This is nothing new from what we've seen before. The only reason why the building trust wasn't there in ShB was literally because of the state of the region, things were already at their worst for a century and people didn't have the luxury of not trusting others.

[Destati]

I don't think this is the problem. I think it's the wonky pacing of the story. It starts off at a snail's pace upon a glacier and then starts to pick up after the first dungeon, but then you suddenly hit a wall again and need to ramp back up. Then it gets really exciting and interesting and back you go to walking around talking to people for hours on end.

The previous expansion's pacing was spectacularly done. This one I've mostly stopped caring about the story because every time I start to get hooked and into it, they shut the door on that part and tell me to go back to escort quests.

This. 100% this.
Also I feel that the wonky pacing of this expansion is a consequence of trying to wrap up all these loose plot ends established in previous expansions that ShB wasn't burdened with handling.