I’d say Mistborn is comfortably in my top 10 favorite trilogies, although it probably doesn’t break my top 5 (honestly, I think I prefer Reckoners more, since I have a soft spot for superheroes). Mistborn is similar to Harry Potter or the OG Star Wars trilogy - they’re not the deepest or best written stories, but they have a lot of themes, world building, and entertaining narratives that make them immensely popular with general audiences.

If you read nothing else, the first Mistborn book is worth the time if you like heist stories. Maybe it won't break into your top 3 books ever (you're right that people overhype it a bit. He's got a lot of readers new to epic fantasy who have no idea the kind of content out there to compare it to) but it's solid and really reignited my love of reading. His magic systems are almost sci-fi, but he uses a lot of higher ideals in his story themes that you can only find in good fantasy books.

It's not modern writers' fault that LoTR used every epic trope under the sun and left nothing for anyone else. 😂 Edit: just to clarify. You can't reinvent the wheel, there's only so many compelling stories available to us, so it becomes a writer's job to make it their own. Which means that Tolkien does not have the monopoly on these ideas because "he did it first." For one, the claim he used them first isnt even true because a lot of his inspiration came from mythology (Norse mythology, specifically, if i remember correctly).