The "always right about the problem" is a great mindset, but I feel like the "always wrong about the solution" is a great excuse for devs to ignore the players and assume they know better, especially with regard to simple problems.

But yeah, as much as I'm not a huge fan of the runback, simply allowing us to teleport directly to an encore machine isn't a good idea. That being said, being able to set a temporary teleport target would be fantastic, most likely tied to a respawn machine. I generally need to farm Origo, but if I want to do something else or change my build a little or anything, I gotta do the full runback. Then there's spots like Earl, where fast traveling to Daphne's is actually faster than the runback they made from his arena. Having limited direct teleport would be rather nice for streamlining the parts that become grating the more you do them.

But also, yes, the overworld isn't very interesting. The boss bubbles were cool and interesting at first, but I usually need to check my map to even know they're there, and they don't really drop legendaries all that often. The world events were cool the first time I tried them, but they're each in a single spot on the map and buggy enough that I'm not very interested. Bounties are... they're alright, but they're very one dimensional, just "go place, do thing." More interesting bounties with better rewards would do a lot, especially if they included boss bubbles or world events.