>>96072810
For me it boils down to 3 entirely personal reasons
1) I prefer free-form tile placing with implicit/mitigatable limitations compared to restrictive 'must play here' tile placement. Aka polyomino games and shit like Cascadia run smoother in my brain than CoB
2) Instead of feeling good chaining bonus combos together, it elicits the contrast effect and makes non-combo turns feel bad and plodding. Queueing isn't a mechanic I particularly like in the first place and seeing it bypassed only some of the time exasperates the frustration with it
3) I know they memed "Without the excitement of dice rolling" above but there is something very particular about CoB's dice mechanics that suck away any joy compared to things like Marco Polo, Rajas, even Grand Austria. I haven't quite put my finger on what exactly, but it's definitely the final blow to the rest of the tile aspects
It's probably the first well loved game I bounced off hard and I don't think I've touched any Feld since. But I was pretty early in the hobby when I tried it and assumed the gulag's word was gospel gloomhaven is still at 4 btw