Popularity=/=quality
Quality is in the eye of the reader.
Exhibit A: Twilight. It's popular. but is of good quality? I agree quality does not equal popularity.
I'm one of those FF fans who has lowered my expectations of the series to go anywhere just so that I could enjoy the weekly release. I'm always happy that I have something to look forward to every Mondays. Cause mondays suck.
As I've said before all the complains that i feel about the series has already been said for me by other posters.
Sometimes, authors do get stuck, and it's not really easy to put something out every week.
What I like about the current installments, is that at least Seola and Norae are always together. :) Im never happy when one of the pairs hardly show up in a chappie.