Story flows much better since you have to on foot discover new zones and don't have to do side quests all the time. I'll avoid spoilers but the story feels more like a Digimon show since your character and friends start in the human world and due to wacky shenanigans end up in digital world and need to find out what is going on.

Not a high bar, Dusk story was to me so much non existent that I made up my own story of trying to revive Zeed Millenniumon (which in hindsight was hilarious after silver rank and the post game gaia quest). Story and characters are an obvious improvement over Dawn/Dusk.

In short, I like it more than Dawn/Dusk but I feel like it didn't really fix the issues I have with Digimon Story games in general and has at least one new bug plate shaped issue.