Whilst I agree that endgame content is more important than the story (although I feel ARPGs are let off the hook too much when it comes to delivering a quality story compared to traditional RPGs), I feel phrasing the question as an either-or is a false dichotomy.
A release version of a game should have a complete story arc and a decent endgame. That’s not to say that more story or endgame features cant or won’t be developed later, but in my opinion calling the release of a game 1.0 that doesn’t include the above just doesn’t really feel like a full release.
EHG might be calling this 1.0 (or whatever the current version is), but personally I won’t consider LE out of early access until as a minimum the story is completed. Looking at the roadmap, it doesn’t even look like this will be the case after 1.4 releases.
That means one year post-release we still probably won’t have a finished campaign.
I don’t mean my comments to be unkind, the work yo...