The Wind's Twelve Quarters and the Compass Rose

DNF this:(
Of the first 8, I enjoyed NO story. Yeah, the art of wordcraft is amazing, but beneath the nice shiny shell lie weak, lame engines. The storylines feel naive, simplistic, old school (and simply old/not aged well) and really lack “a punch”.
Nowhere near the quality of the novels, which I still consider 5/5s.
I also expected SF and mostly received fantasy. Old-school fantasy...