I will say that as far as old-timey fantasy novels that are ultimately just collections of short stories go, it’s not a terrible book. It’s no Silmarillion, but I’ve read worse.

Weird for people to hype it so much such a long time later, when there’s so much better stories around, even around worldbuilding and worldcreation and human interactions over such worldbuilding systems. Compare for example the Science of Discworld and its successor books.