Finally finished the MSQ, and to be honest, it was OK up til the Golden Dragon fight onward, at that point it was just bad. Bad fights, bad pacing, just bad. The game is at its absolute best when you ignore the MSQ and just go explore the world doing the little side quests / regional stuff.
Odd thing, with this "Enhanced" version they supposedly made the MSQ pacing/dialogue better than at launch, so I'm wondering if any of that took effect on my save or not. Anyway, glad I'm done with that. I had thought the MSQ would take you to every region, but it doesn't, it leaves the entire north-east quadrant of the map untouched, which is cool.