Yeah I imagine Bioware's original vision would have had this much more similar to their older games, with a proper story.Destiny and The Division suffered same issues. Low content at launch. But they both had top notch gameplay.
It must have gone through some severe development hell to have this little content, most of it fairly low quality, after 6 years of dev.
This is following the same steps that both those first games had. Though after Destiny 2, and The Divisions updates which made it a really strong game. So anthem looks much worse.