I agree. Destiny's lore is great, Bungie even made two lore books that you can purchase outside of the game that were curated by a lore youtuber and in parts written by acclaimed fantasy writer. Everything I saw in Anthem was cliche and generic, the world is boring, dead and visually repetitive, you don't understand why you're fighting what you're fighting (did enemy factions even get an introduction mission?) the story is almost a 1:1 to Destiny 2's story; a bad guy wants to use the powerful machine to kill everyone and guerrilla fighters are trying to stop him. Only that in Destiny 2 it was done better and the missions were more interesting; you can actually see how deadly the red legion are and it comes across in the world design, cutscenes and endgame content.
In Anthem there is no danger, no reason to fight anything, no carrot on a stick to keep you shooting at the mobs, you're the most pathetic "superhero" in existence with a suit that can't stop malfunctioning. Where are the cool bosses? mini-bosses? everything is either a Titan, four legged tank or a big creature, and the game is not shy of throwing them all at you in a single mission. Enemies are braindead, they don't do anything in the open world(they don't fight other factions) the game makes no effort to give them a backstory and exposition.
Destiny makes you feel like a badass, when you get a new subclass they make sure to give it a mission and let you go ham. Every class has 3 subclasses with skill trees that you can change, you will find non of that in Anthem. The game hates making you feel cool, no customization options without paying, no unique weapons, you don't even get a cool gun after finishing the campaign, it's just baffling that people even compare it to a game like Destiny.