Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
Dawntrail was a story that you happened to not like. That's it.

It's not some grand plan.
It's not some big structural failure.
It's not a secret flaw or saboteur that's keeping the developers from doing the work they really want to do.

You just didn't like a story. Accept it and move on, don't big it up into something it's not and then set up to disappoint yourself further when you're proven wrong.

If you must interrogate it, and get more meaning out of it than 'I didn't like it', then my recommendation is actually that you completely reject any assertions of inherent quality, and instead consider why things do and don't resonate with you specifically. Don't call Dawntrail 'bad' and Shadowbringers (or whatever your favorite expansion is) 'good', becuase there is no measurable difference between good and bad things; ask yourself why one story did work for you, and why another story didn't.
Right—because when loads of people are saying the same thing, it must still just be a personal issue.