Anyone Else Miss EtherSea?

Maybe it’s cause I started listening during that season. Maybe it’s that the characters had more personality and the world was cooler. Dust was actually so boring I almost stopped listening. I just haven’t really caught on to Steeplechase yet. These last few episodes have been better but it seems to have taken a whole series to actually start to like these characters. As a semi new listener (relatively compared to the amount of time they have been doing this podcast) do veterans feel this way about old series or was EtherSea just a phenomenon? I love the pod and the other pods and our boys no hate just a discussion.