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I definitely prefer DFT overall compared to OJT, but it still came off as a pretty big mess. The biggest issue in terms of limited was that most of the archetypes never got to shine because WotC seems fixated on trying to make 10 factions in one-set environments (see MKM as well). I think the set being centered around a silly race rather than something at least a bit more grounded, or at least closer to times of medieval Magic (not saying OTJ was, but people probably received the world that way) was probably why people hate it more.
>it was a Western set that utterly refused to actually engage with the Western genre in any way at all besides High Noon.
The worst part is most people probably didn't even care about that. The only Westerns people my age (Zoomers) are familiar with, assuming they weren't raised on the classics, are Django Unchained and maybe Rango. Everything else to them are artificial tropes that they have very little knowledge of outside what they've probably seen in cartoons or maybe that one guy from Overwatch.