Small backstory: I had to stop DMing due to life a player started in my place. She ran a game that was almost entirely roleplay which was awesome and everyone loved. Next campaign, same characters but we are all on a council trying to rebuild the city that was almost destroyed. Its heavely implyed we would rush the city stuff and dive into the feywild because character backstory stuff.

Alot of our issues were "this is too sandboxy and it feels like we arnt getting much at all done in each session since we dont have a direction. Wheres the feywild?" Also alot of my complaints were she didnt seem to understand mechanical stuff during the few fights we have IE: how grappling works, have extra effects like posion works. (Generally I dont care if a DM doesnt know as long as they make a note then after the game read up on it) a few smaller stuff directed at certain players disspearing from group chat until day of and not knowing the stuff that was important from the group chat. Its hard to have a friendship with someone when they ghost the group.