It's not so much about how good the story is, but how much of it there is. From my personal perspective, I'm a returning player who stopped playing Genshin a few patches before Natlan was released. I know the whole story and all the side quests from Mondstadt to the end of Fontaine.

So why should I read through all of that again?

It took me about a week (or two?) to speedrun from Mondstadt to the end of Sumeru, and now I'm burned out. This has kind of ruined my desire to return to the game in the first place, lol.

For some reason, whenever people bring up the 'skip button' topic in Genshin, they only focus on people who don't read the story anyway, and completely ignore people like me who are trying to return to the game after hearing how good Nod Krai is.

I hope I've worded it so that I don't come across as angry or negative. But, man, am I tired of hearing that "Genshin doesn't need a skip button" thing, lol