It was better than Raising Steam at least, in my opinion. Some characters in that are unrecognisable.
His biography _A Life With Footnotes_ by his assistant describe how the last books were made. Pratchett would still have moments of clarity when he would dictate whole scenes in an almost finished state, but he wasn't able to tie them together into a whole anymore. That was mostly done by an editor. And large parts of the book are only sketches of a plot that he would have kept editing and expanding over and over normally, but there wasn't time.
I still thought it worked as a fitting end for many characters.
Yes, Raising Steam wasn't good. Did the Discworld need steam? Felt shoehorned in and just not an interesting direction. What happened to the dwarf stone that rotated with near infinite torque? That could have been the power source of a Discworld industrial revolution, if it was going to happen. More fun to explore there.
> I still thought it worked as a fitting end for many characters.
Maybe. I guess I feel that the characters didn't need a fitting end. They were established and they just existed. There was no overarching story that needed wrapping up.
His biography _A Life With Footnotes_ by his assistant describe how the last books were made. Pratchett would still have moments of clarity when he would dictate whole scenes in an almost finished state, but he wasn't able to tie them together into a whole anymore. That was mostly done by an editor. And large parts of the book are only sketches of a plot that he would have kept editing and expanding over and over normally, but there wasn't time.
I still thought it worked as a fitting end for many characters.