There's a reason why no one's talking about it.
And it's that Guild Wars 2 isn't even close to "One of the best MMOs."
I've seen plenty of MMO comparison videos over the years, and unlike the vast majority of other MMOs that come and go, GW2 is always among the top, and while it occasionally falters, it never goes down over the 10 years of existing.
Here's just some random youtube searches after typing "MMO comparison".
You can say it isn't the most popular compared to the giants that are based on popular licenses, but you can't say it isn't among the best.
Guild Wars 2 is weird. It was released, was pretty popular and then I never hear about expect some minor story every few years. I assume they are doing fine financially, but seems like releasing on Steam or at least Epic would benefit them.
As a mater of fact, they DO plan to release on steam "
soon tm".
When it comes to new players, the biggest issue is the early content, that just like Vanila WoW, it's very outdated, and during the first season of content patches, they followed a "only for those who where there" approach, and everything was temporary.
Guild Wars 2 was a gorgeous soulless hollow game. I'm a treasure hunter and this game had no treasure worth finding and the worst dungeons ever.
As I said above... vanilla content. There is IMO no MMO with better exploration than GW2. Especially when it comes to open world.