Multiple parallel story arcs - rant

I'm reading a great book (The Last Mortal Bond by Brian Staveley, book #3 in "Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne") currently that ticks all my boxes with a unique world, unique story, unique background, in depth plot with good twists etc. In short a great read even at 850 pages (all the books are long in the series). Love the story, love the series and highly recommend it.

However... What's driving me up the wall in the series and many other books as well (and there was book 11 or 12 in the Wheel of Times series as the extreme example with 1 chapter per group in the whole book due to 20+ different groups being told in parallel) is because it has multiple parallel plots going on it spends one chapter on each group of people. This in turn means it feels a bit like reading a lot of short stories because every chapter is dedicated to Group A, B, C etc. and every chapter because of this becomes it's own small story with a start, middle and end (usually dramatic). Then when you finish at the top and wants to know what's next it moves on to the next group to say what they are doing at the same time. I understand the need to drive multiple plots in parallel but this split up (and this series is far from alone on it, common complaint for many other series) really makes the story stop and start over and over again. I'd much prefer if they would stick to one or two stories and finish a few chapters to make it more cohesive and then move on (I'd argue books but between the groups crossing path etc. it would get to convoluted and spoilers for future books). Am I the only one seeing this more and more and getting annoyed by it?