Well yeah, once it got to the actual new stuff, FMAB was great. But the fact that, if you wanted the FULL FMA manga story in anime form, you'd have to piece together parts of the first series and parts of the second really sucks.
I'm expecting this series will also slow down once it passes the point the old series ended as well, but that's a lot of great stuff in the meantime that's going to be heavily edited.