Budi,
Yeah, RDR has a shit ton of story and narrative ralated problems in terms of gameplay and everything you've just said and I also really don't like any of it. Hell, I've got bored so much at 45% of the game that I even forced myself to play more just to finish the game and just to tell myself "here, I've finished the fucking thing!"... but I never did and have no desire to play it again because of so many problems I have with it.
JodokusK,
Really? I see a shit ton of activities and "stuff to do" by just looking at the map and you telling me that all of this shit is not hurting the story, narrative and everything else related to it? I'm sorry, but I don't believe you at all. "Stuff to do" is almost never a good thing in open world games and sure as hell is not even remotely well justiffied and well paced in terms of the story, narrative etc. All of this (or at least 90%) is just a bunch of stupid video game stuff that waste your time.
The Witcher 3 is the one and only game with the "stuff to do" (not question marks) which is made just as well or even better than some of the story stuff. So as long as other games doing the exact opposite, this "stuff to do" will never be good for the story, characters, narrative and for your time as well.