Engaging & Impactful Quest & Open World Content Design

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You're effectively just saying that you want 'background' content, though, which is great, but it doesn't scratch the itch for certain types of players who explicitly want the A-B-C step process that Quests give them. Also, for others, who experience games through a lens of being led around by the objectives that the game gives them, providing them with repeating objectives that are also rare and yet don't have high immediacy, seems to lead to them either losing interest in the game itself, or constantly demanding new 'immediate' content.

Since players are on a spectrum for this, you can't even just throw it out there that some specific amount of engagement is 'correct'.

Those two player types make up the bulk of MMORPG players, I'd say. Ashes should absolutely have good 'background' content, but it will have basically no effect on their enjoyment.

Think of it as the difference between someone who wants to go to a Crafter's Market every weekend because it's part of their routine and they like the atmosphere, vs someone who wants to visit an amusement park with infinite unique rides (or at least rides that change somewhat every time they visit).

Best to just make the amusement park and use it to surround the Crafter's Market.

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I think if that's the majority of players of Ashes, certain devs will be sad.

That's the only reason I care about that, really. If that happens, Riot can handle the rest.

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Entirely true. I always say that Steven should make whatever he wants, I just want him to be clear about it. Why have a bunch of quest writers and (PvE-ish) Story Arc devs on staff for content that 90% of your playerbase isn't going to care about?

And even if it is no harm at all to have them and you 'might as well' have them, then we're back to this conversation being valid. Even if only 5% of Ashes players care about any of that, the people hired to do it should still care about doing it as well as possible, probably?

Honestly I guess that's not really required, so yeah, I see your point in the end.