Not only is it not better written, it's notorious for literally stealing things from The Wheel of Time straight up. It's some of the most blatant plagiarism I've ever seen in my life.

Also I refuse to believe you didn't pick up on the libertarianism. He literally dedicated one of the books to Ayn Rand. The Sword of Truth is the worst book series I've ever read my life.

Yeah the whole old empire thing was basically a giant socialism strawman (including equal distribution of sex from pretty women, lol) that he totally destroys by showing everyone by example how to pick yourself up by your bootstraps. And his author blurb says he a member of the Ayn Rand society or something like that. That shit didn't start creeping in in a big way until the later books though (correction: it started early, I didn't know he wrote 26 of the things). It was enough to put me off his follow-up series.

Edit: Shit, apparently he wrote 15 more after I stopped with book eleven, which really felt like a complete end to me, I was surprised way back then that there were any more. I don't know how he managed to milk it that much.

Undoubtedly, at least until Brandon Sanderson took over. I enjoyed the last few books so much more due to the significantly better writing quality, but felt bad because Sanderson only took over because Robert Jordan died.