It is a great game that has the opportunity to be even greater but the main quest (ARR) limits a lot of the content and it's just a massive 100 hour buildup or so.
It took me 2 weeks of constantly playing daily all day to finally even understand the world and the story and what was happening while also using the book at the inn to double check I was understanding it well. It sucks how you can easily overlevel the main story and have all your features locked because the quest is 10 times lower your level. It sucks that if you progress, the game will say "nope, fuck you" and level sync you downwards. I understand why it happens but it certainly feels limited as fuck because you do need to do that to progress.

late game tho is great and amazing, specially with friends like
the amount of cooperation and how great every victory feels is amazing, but I feel like the game really tried to balance things out and ended up feeling like a drag in ARR.

As soon as that is done, the story not only becomes interesting but the gameplay too because it now feels like you get "more cool stuff to play with" rather than "the fun begins after you end X".