How about you do your reading first?

"In BDO most true quest lines just involve going from point A to B (AFK pathing) and then spamming R.  From time to time you kill a few mobs. "

At what point besides never did I say "Nobody is reading quests".  It sounds like something you just made up to fit your narrative.  Even worse it pretends to be ignorant of the facts that even Pearl Abyss is well aware of.  It's not like you don't know what spamming R means and how much of an issue it is.

Of course you also completely ignored the concept of playing through the game while questing as opposed to AFK pathing through most of it as well.  

Do you even play BDO?

Isnt diablo 4 paid for then subscription based.

Also havent people already finished diablo 4?

There is no re occuring fee for PC users.   Other devices may need it for full functionality.

With enough money you can complete BDO in less than 10 minutes ;)

Grinding for 26,000 hours in a circle just so you can attempt BIS Jewely isn't really the same as actual content.  Finishing the campaign is just an intro into newer tiers and end game.

NCSoft just destroyed Pearl Abyss also FYI.  They dared to SELL offline progression.  Even PA hasn't stooped that low....... yet.

diablo 4 has single player content it is buy to play with multi, but you can solo the content

you confuse with wow

Shouldn't we stop answering to OP anyway?

I mean, we're in the typical case of someone who clearly don't WANT TO have fun in BDO anymore and blame everything which is not to his taste, progression, content, type of gearing...

Show me someone who is saying there's nothing to do in BDO, I'll show you that this player is in fact ignoring many aspects of the game.

Without saying that one should aim at doing 100% of the game (it would be crazy!), to have a decent knowledge of a majority of BDO aspects and activities already implies a real investment.

OP, have fun in D4, that's the most important thing! 

As a level 100 in D4 game is trash. Hate to necro this but this is a better necro then d4's minions. lol. 

Terrible game one of the worse games already rejoined bdo and having 10x as much fun. 

There's a ton of problems with d4, but don't let me explain them to you go visit the the d4 forums. 

Here's some stuff though.

Open world is useless

Renowed terrible

Story was hot garbage but w/e if you liked it

Mob density terrible

World bosses are like way worse then bdo's loot pinata at least bdo has loot

Class specas are wonked up 

Itemization is boring/terrible

Missing tons of QoL from it's own titles

We could go on and on and on with how bad d4 is. 

Shoot at least hitting 1585 multiple times in Lost Ark at least lost ark is an mmo and has raids. D4 is like an mmo that pretends to be one. Lets not even talk about those events most are hot hot garbage some like auto fail like the save people one like one posion and all dead, and even if they don't it's actually a waste of time to do it.

Awful game maybe s4+ will fix it