I would say they did not sell well or the profit from them was not great. But the Essentials box has locations which are either 2 to 4 pages long if you could those as a separate module.
Tell us how you really feel.Youre probably right but I got to pg 13 of the Baldurs Gate crap before I lost intrest.
So you have descent already. BOOO BOOO. Grumble Grumble Grumble. Ok. This will still cost you but tales of Yawning portal has some short of today chapters. And you can run them stand alone.
Tell us how you really feel.
Serious question have you tried not playing D&D. A bunch of other systems have smaller modules.If I really told you...