I don't know. I can sooort-of see why people would see the consular story as 'less exciting', however I thought the story was awesome, especially if not played as a first story. for example when you have already played the jedi knight or the sith classes - you will get a lot of 'ah HA!' moments (then again the same would be the case if you played the other classes afterwards, obviously)

I really liked that. especially the four force-stories are all linked together, which definitely adds to it.