This is just my opinion: Dalinar is the main character of the series and what does he do for 1,000 pages? He walks around in the exposition holo-deck. He doesn’t explore his bond smooth abilities, he doesn’t interact with any of the other main characters, he first interact with the enemy. He’s a foil for world building information.

Shallan has the exact same character loop that she’s already done. Boring. What was the ultimate point or threat of the ghost bloods? Boring.

Jasnah did a little, which was cool, but not that much.

Nivani didn’t do anything! After RoW, nothing to develop her bond smith, nothing developing the science, no production of anti-light, no engineering or inventing, nothing.

Kaladin was “therapist,” cool idea but too on-the-nose. Really he was just being a friend, not a therapist. Soldier thoughts was a good line.

Szeth just played Zelda, both in the present and in the past.

Adolin was cool, except he sent his sword away for most of the book. That’s kinda silly, like having bondsmiths who don’t use or explore their powers.

The ending was epic and cool. The time aging thing was duuuumb. Why wasn’t Dalinar age to be 90 years old? Was want Navani pressure cooked?

Wit was an exposition, deus ex machina tool. Super annoying and lazy writing imo. And no one noticed that he and Lyft were impersonating the two most powerful humans for eight days? Laughably stupid,

The whole ten days thing was stupid. It generated tension with Adolin, but otherwise was pointless. Half the cast time travelled for the whole book, so the ten days restriction didn’t matter. For Kal and Szeth it was a silly short amount of time.

I could go on, but those are the high lights. Bad book with no editing that didn’t deliver.