The fundamental problem with Jordan is that he's a poor writer. He has little ability to write proper character point of views. If you observe his writing closely, he always inserts his own narrative godlike voice into the thoughts of his characters. He doesn't maintain a first, second or third point of view.
That's just one of many issues. Jordan has also pushed himself up against the wall, so to speak, by creating a plot that doesn't appear to have an end in sight, nor one that always seems to make logical sense.
He doesn't seem to understand that we don't need to see the certain actions of certain characters. The Forsaken appear to be much less threatening when they're given screen time, because they're humanized.
If Jordan truly intended for readers to fear the Forsaken, he should have have shown as little of them as possible. I never thought a great deal of psychological insight was needed to understand this, but perhaps I was wrong.
To compliment this, he writes about characters whose insights are irrelevant to the main narrative, and whose interruption disrupt the flow of the novels and contributes little to the novel as a whole. It is not necessary that Jordan display the thoughts of Elaida, rebel Aiel, or Aes Sedai of tertiary importance.
What would be more appropriate would be to have events occur off-screen and then mentioned in passing. There is no need to write an 800 page novel of which only 350 or 400 pages are truly necessary. We need not read about the side adventures of characters as they ride their horses through the country-side.
I have always felt that Lord of Chaos (which some call one of the finest novels in the WoT series) was the most synthetic and wasteful of the books. The book could have been 300 pages if properly written and/or edited.
Unfortunately, Jordan's editor is his wife, and so I presume that her personal feelings towards her husband disrupt her ability to maintain an objective criticism of Jordan's work.
