OK, if most people (certainly not all) agree that this adventure is not the direction we would like to see Wizards headed, I think the next question to ask is: what are they thinking?
One thing I'd like to point out is that I found most of the material in the last issues of Dragon and Dungeon to be very well done. Creature Incarnations in Dragon, for example, detailed many knew kobold roles, well thought out, and included humor and whimsy. So it isn't like WotC can't put out a quality product.
We might be looking at a sophomore slump. Maybe they've been working at the content of the first issues of Dungeon and Dragon for a while, and now they're having trouble because they're suddenly crunched for time. And certainly, they may have bitten off more than they can chew with all of their ambitious digital products.
But they could have put off the launch of the AP until later in the month. I'm not really sure why that decision couldn't have been made. I'm sure Dave Noonan is a perfectly good writer, so there are three possibilities: He ran out of time, he didn't get editorial feedback, and/or he produced just what was asked for.
So can anybody tell us exactly what happened? Do the people at WotC just not read the stuff Paizo produces? Are they tilting the website to a younger audience that probably doesn't exist yet?
I'm not trying to bash Wizards or 4e-- I like 4e! But what is up at WotC?