Ok some of you will heartily disagree with me on this, but this is my observation of this questline.
Why do I find it Epic meh? I will break it down in all the points.
1: You are not guaranteed the tome recipe at the end. I have even heard some say you first need to get all the blueprints before you get it. Which I frankly hope is not true.
2: The rewards are downright blergh. "But you get grout!" yeah I get that from Ali's as well, and I get way more stuff from those on top of that at a far lower cost in troops.
3: The exp is ... nothing to write home to about. Why? FT's can at the very least net you bonus exp (40K-120K) not to mention you use normal troops so you can basically rebuild your Ali units while running an FT and vice versa. VS and Ali then? Well ... Ali get bonus exp, and you can finish/do a the threat and/or Compass. None of the Evil queen adventures have that saving grace. You use Elites but it doesn't count as an Ali so you cannot time it together with a The Threat or a Compass.
4: The Epic Farmyard - sorry but a 6 by 4 building that counts as 3 of it's regular versions ... it's way too large. I honestly cannot justify putting it on my Island. While sure 3 of the regular buildings will use 3 Building licenses, at the very least these can go up to lvl 6, take less space. The only thing that I suppose is useful is that you can change productions at a whim. But tbh at my level with the Improved buildings ... it is downright not worth it in any way.
Now if ANY ONE of these had been different ... at the very least it would have made this quest chain way less of a pain in the rear.
Now I just downright hate it. It's cumbersome, it's slow, the reward are terrible I have to forego doing an Ali and bonus exp just to slog through FIVE (yes the quest chain is five freaking terrible adventures) in the hopes I get the recipe so I never have to do it again.
I am all for a challenge really, but this? This isn't interesting tbh.
I am well aware that it will not be changed. (they still haven't changed all the old adventures no one does anymore because they are terrible) But now at least I got it off my chest and I sincerely hope they will not introduce anything this horrible EVER again.