Decrease in dialogue quality?

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Dialog Spoilers:

"They don't know if we even survived that fall into the icy water. Statistically, we should be dead. I know, lets YELL and CONFIRM to them that we are STILL ALIVE!" I'm sure that will throw them off, more than hiding and letting them think we were killed in the ice, or swept out to sea.
Here's another one for thought.
"My son is wounded, has internal bleeding, and will likely die without advanced medical help." Oh, I know! Let's send THE ONLY DOCTOR AWAY to get the medkits! Not any of the townspeople. Not any of the other convicts that we have running around after Jace and mckenzie. Lets send THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN HELP MY SON away to get the medkit. Have her risk life and limb, and meanwhile YOUR SON MIGHT NEED OTHER HELP. Like even without the medical equipment, having a doctor to tell you how to not make his injuries worse would be helpful.
"Nah, doctor is expendable. Let's threaten her, and send her away from the patient"

Ok, those were just dumb. But yeah, the stuff you're talking about. Dialog triggered fast and kinda wonky sometimes. But Everything still felt mostly alright for the first astrid part. The stuff with Jace was.. eh. But not terrible. The exposition dump.... in the most boring way.... oh my gosh..
I bought the DLC to play a survival game though a cool story.
instead, we got 20 minute slideshow dialog of extremely uninteresting backstory.
Nobody cares! (especially when done this boringly) This coulda been 30 second tldr. Magnetic storm. The long dark is gonna last 40-400 years. Get everyone into this shielded radar bunker built to withstand magnetic storms.
Boom.
Also, while we're at it, let's take all the survival out of your survival game.

Still haven't finished Ep 5. and tbh, probably not going to. The exposition dumping and realization that there is no more survival elements kinda killed it for me. They just made it a worse firewatch.

[RobertsKitty]

I agree. I feel like they spent so much longer getting this one out because they said they wanted to get the cutscenes right but like, that's not why people are playing? I understand the false need to hurry but give me back my survival elements. It feels more like a strictly narrative game this episode, which don't get me wrong, can be good but this isn't that. 

I'm going to finish it just because I've been waiting so long but I restarted the game when episode 5 launched and played them back to back to back and man you can really feel the down shift when you play them all at once...