While Bannerlord sandbox currently has its problems it has more content andnhad is better than warband anyone who disagrees is not connected to reallity.
Are you going to back up that statement? Because if you actually compare the two games, it's not convincing.
Here's the extra gameplay content Warband has:
* Feasts, with an accompanying quest for the player to hold their own feast
* Companions who ask you to make decisions and actually keep talking to you after you hire them
* Lord strategic dialogue e.g.: asking them to attack or defend a city without you or warning them that the enemy is coming
* Skill Books
* Political quests such as Intrigue and Denounce a Lord
* Fighting your way out in civilian garb when you fail to sneak into a city or try to smuggle a lord out of prison
* Individual village upgrades
* Pretenders
* Deeper courtship: coming back to visit or sneaking in to visit, quests to gain favor, dedicating tournament victories, learning their likes and dislikes, poetry
* Dueling lords if they insulted you or competed with you for a lover
* Rescuing lords from captivity quest (devs have said this is coming back at some point but Bannerlord doesn't have it yet so it's still a point against it).
* Weddings
* Tax Collector quest, Train peasants to deal with bandits quest, kidnapped girl quest, hunt fugitive quest, assassinate merchant quest, provocation quest, dispute resolution quest
* Recruitable Manhunters who roamed the worldmap hunting bandits who you could jump in to aid in their battles
* Trainable Sword Sisters
* Deserter neutral enemies who roamed the worldmap as a bigger neutral threat than looters
* More weapon variety
Here's the extra gameplay content Bannerlord has at the moment:
* Smithing (not properly implemented yet).
* Fief upgrades
* Policy voting
* Family Feud quest, Tutor a Lord quest, that quest where you sell surplus goods
* Companion parties
* Having children heirs (not properly implemented yet).
* Lords being able to die
* Siege weapons
* le board game
To me it looks like Bannerlord has
less total gameplay content than Warband. A game made 10 years ago with a smaller team.
If you compare Bannerlord's gameplay to Viking Conquest's, it looks even worse. VC managed to have creating your own settlement, ambushes, setting camp to rest, dog companions, hunting animals on the worldmap with a unique battle, religions, working as a farmer/logger/miner minigames, naval travel and battles with shipbuilding, custom start and endgoals, etc.