In a lot of countries (Northern Hemisphere) Summer is the holiday season, but that has never been my experience in the US. So it might not be as strange from that perspective.

Oh no sorry. It has creators and users that business model you described afaik. There are some creators on Nebula that are also on YouTube. Nebula is not a program to watch stuff on YouTube

Nebula does this. I really like the platform except there aren’t comments. Sometimes I like reading the comments on a video

Oh apologies! There are a lot of event chains all over the Orr maps (Southern Tyria). You can most likely run around those maps and constantly find events. The temple meats are chained events as well

Not sure what level of content you’re looking for and what reason, but I’ll give it a go. The Heart of Thorns maps (apart from Dragon’s Stand) all follow the “event chain” model. You can see the tower icons on the map to find where the event currently going is. After you complete a chain, there are normally a few more harder events afterwards. I’m not sure I’d consider them fast if the goal was just number of events. This is also true for the “mini zones” in the SotO maps. There’s an event in Thunderhead Peaks (in one of the puzzle rooms) to kill 1 elite that can be spammed over and over again (easy way to finish the Return To achievement)

It really affects new players like you’re saying. As a long time player with stacks of XP books, I didn’t notice it. I imagine for players who want to get to max ASAP, it’s nice. For players who like the grind and want to compete a map before moving on, it might feel a bit strange to level so fast. I think with level scaling, it probably doesn’t make too much of a negative for anyone.

I’ve enjoyed it so far… Maybe I’m not being as analytical as you, but for $25 I’ve gotten a lot of enjoyment so far.

Definitely feels like something I’ll have to get my hands on before I judge it too much. The fact that they stated there isn’t a FOMO mechanic to it is good. As someone who played the previous two WOW expansions, I hope it feels nothing like them.