White Sand Omnibus

I read the first volume of this back in 2016 and remember mildly enjoying it, despite it not being completed. Then I never continued to read the subsequent volumes, but when I heard there would be a completed Omnibus of the whole thing, I got excited to finally finish it.
First off, I just want to say that the physical edition is beautiful. The pages are high-quality gloss, it has a good hardcover, and the artwork is amazing. I also really liked that the binding allowed it to open fully even in the middle and end, since it is so large, and I didn't have to break the spine to see or read in the center.
As for the story itself, I feel kind of ‘meh' about it. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great. As always, Sanderson's world-building is amazing, but this was an odd choice of story to make into a graphic novel. It is so heavily ‘political' that while visually the artwork is amazing, there is so little to actually work with to make it satisfying. The structuring was odd and the characters were only okay for me. I didn't relate or really care about any of them. I miss those deep dives into characterization that we get in Sanderson's full-length novels. The dialogue was very awkward and the transition between certain scenes was very jarring too.
There is a lot of repetitiveness to the story, and it was ‘go here and unrealistically convince someone of this', and then ‘go to the next place' and do the same thing, for a good 2/3 of the book! The motivations and quick turnaround of the character's stances were unbelievable. I think it could have been much better if fleshed out as an actual book as opposed to a graphic novel.
I like the vein of what Sanderson was trying to get at here, I think I like the overall idea of the story and of course, I loved the world-building, but the execution of it fell flat for me. It's a shame though because there was a lot of potential and the groundwork laid down was interesting, I think it just was the wrong format for it.