I really suffered during this expansion. The writing is so abysmal that even initially I liked Wuk Lamat, I came to resent her.
The questing structure is worse in this expansion as it's repetitive and every time you enter a zone you're just constantly doing the same thing over and over again, as in exactly, even story wise.
The first half of the expansion is boring and the second half quite rage inducing. This is the first expansion where I wasn't even motivated to finish and usually for previous expansions I was trying so hard no to log off cause I wanted to know what's going to happen next. Not for this expansion though, every time I stop and log off, I felt relief, my mind was so bored and tired of the story and gameplay that playing the expansion felt painful.
I know some people enjoy the expansion, but I really hated it and I have loved every expansion from FF14, even the less well received Stormblood. But Dawntrail was awful.