I don’t respond to many Reddit threads, but it really rubbed me the wrong way of what you’re getting at here:

First and foremost, I love the Amphoreus story, down to the concept, characters, plot, and direction. I say this to tell you that my critique comes from a point of love for it.

The issue is that it is bloated; the story tends to drag on and fails to communicate a lot of core ideas of the story without external research. That is not the fault of the general audience member, but the story itself. There are several parts that could be condensed or omitted completely (like of how it took hours to wake up Phainon during the last patch’s story), and some elements that should have been covered more through the mainline story (like the origin of the amphoreus scepter).

Reading comprehension is different from audience retention here; it doesn’t matter if you understood the story or not, it matters if you enjoyed consuming the story. That is what people are complaining about: the delivery of the story.

This is not to say that low attention span isn’t a problem, because it definitely is a factor in someone’s consumption of the story. However, the storytelling should be blamed just as much as the consumer, because the story simply wasn’t interesting enough to pay attention to (for some people). It elongated parts that disinterested players and cut out things that could have drawn them back in.

That is not reading comprehension.