Originally Posted by Ashbery76
Story pacing and direction suffers greatly from the open world format.Even New Vages had that issue.

That is the point.

Things come with constraints. If you go for an open world, the scripted story must be simplified. If you go for a scripted story, the world must be simplified.

Gamers are used to demanding that incompatible things are made compatible.

Not a bad deal for developpers as they know they are unable to deliver therefore it relieves them from success/failure judgement.