Smaller works like this would be more useful and more cost-effective. You'll never get them from WotC, however. It just doesn't fit into their business plan.
That sound ideal to me. I have been interested in Steamforged Games Epic Enounter series that seems to take a similar approach, but I haven't really looked at them to closely yet. They seem to be geared around everything you need for single encounter.
While I tend to agree, I also know that things change!
You know minus the various small adventures they have given us in anthology books.
Anthologies are fine, but that doesn't mean there isn't a place for stand alone short adventures otherwise. WotC doesn't do them because they aren't worth the return on investment. that's fine. But don't act like people are being unreasonable for wanting them.
We have gotten several short adventures on Beyond.
Not everyone uses Beyond.
They playtest, there's credits for them in the adventures at the front. But playtesting isn't an end-to-end play of the whole thing - that'd generally be too long (at least over a year for an average group). It's generally on specific points within the adventure itself. And things do get missed, just because they're human - or worse, a last minute edit doesn't get a proper editorial pass.
Their fault for that, it's free.
