Rise was pretty mid. Rampages were an absolute disaster and the only good thing to come out of them was the music.
Sunbreak was great.
I loved anomaly investigations. It was more fun endgame filler than Grinding Lands. Not only you get the incentive to fight early game monsters again, but most of them recieve pretty substantial buff making them a threat.
I hope they'll go with something like that for Wilds' expansion endgame.