I kinda agree with OP in some means.
I've been playing for 3+ years and I when I started I rarely had to make choices on "who to farm" or "which legendary should I get next" because they were releasing them as fast as I could farm for them so I always got the previous legendary before the next one came out. Same with Heroes Journey.
I never had to choose a farming path as long as I stayed the path the developers are leading us down.
However newer players have multiple paths to choose, they have to choose which legendary to go after and as they work towards that legendary, CG is already releasing new ones which keeps putting them behind.
We're all fine for veteran players cause we've got each legendary before the next one so we (I) never had to choose.
I can understand the difficulty with that for newer players.