In my opinion, the only reason why the 7.1 MSQ was better than the 7.0 MSQ is because of 2 things:
1) It's shorter, therefore the flaws in the writing are not as evident.
2) Since it's shorter, the pacing was a bit better.

Wuk Lamat is less "annoying" because she's not the one suffering from the writing's flaws the most this time around.
BUT... the flaws are still there, just as much as they were there in 7.0.

The story structure is all over the place, the script quality is low, characters make illogical decisions, the writing is cheesy and contrived, and plot points are solved within minutes.

Story structure:
The entire segment about Zoraal Ja, Gulool Ja and his mother seemed so backwards to me. This felt like something that should have been a theme in 7.0. From what I've heard, 7.1 was supposed to give Zoraal Ja a little more depth retroactively, but in my opinion he as a character still feels as shallow as he did before. Zoraal Ja is a character with lots of interesting concepts, but the execution leaves lots to be desired.

Again, story structure and cheesy, illogical, contrived writing:
Then we have a shift and Koana is supposed to get his arc. They do this by... having him, a leader carrying the responsibility for an entire nation on his back, throw himself in front of a rroneek without anyone ever calling him out for how stupid and reckless this was. Isn't he supposed to be the smart guy?
Soon after, we find out that once upon a time there was a baby that was left behind because his parents went to fight off a big beast, and of course Koana immediately knew it was him. That's it. Arc done.

I could say more about the story structure and how they treated the Wuk Lamat/Zoraal Ja thing but lots of it goes back to 7.0 and I don't have it in me.

If these are the standards we're having to get used to now, I extremely worried about what this means for 8.0.