This sound like a post by someone who doesn't know what they are talking about! If these one-liners are what you think about these books (3 of which are not even out yet) then it tells me you haven't really looked them very deeply.
Well the one-liners are just quick takes about them, oversimplified.
The past two years haven't exactly been full of opportunities to look through the books in depth in person at a store. The only one I've actually looked through was Candlekeep. The adventures all seemed too short to really get into. Some of the adventures consisted of going to one site and fighting one guy to finish the adventure. That's just not what I'm looking for.
The other stuff I'm going with the marketing and reviews I've read online, which tend to an extreme "no questions asked" loving everything Wizards makes or someone trashing it.
I do know I have no interest in Critical Role from trying to watch a couple episodes and having had bad experiences with the influence it's had on one of my former groups (my wife's DM fell under the spell badly and kicked her out of the group because she wasn't "streaming quality.")
Then I have to think about how I'm using gaming material these days - exclusively on VTT. If I were to buy and run a campaign setting, that would mean everything I play on a VTT needs to be altered and adapted (or written whole cloth) to that campaign setting.
That's at least twice the work of just finding something premade and running it on the VTT.
In this case Curse of Strahd is much more helpful for me (and usable) than Van Richten's Guide.
I own so much 5e stuff that I have to consider if I'm going to use something and how I will use it before I buy it.
Additionally what's keeping me from playing/running 5e is the implementation on VTT. I was doing ok on Roll 20, but we shifted to Foundry. I have no 5e content on Foundry, and to get it, you have to buy it on DND Beyond and (questionably) port it using a module. It's like a back door hack that's not guaranteed to work, and support can (and has in the past) get pulled at any point.
I can't even buy PDFs of this stuff to use digitally and port over myself.
There are many reasons to dislike WotC now - and it's not all displacer beast kittens.