Midst Toil and Tribulation

I've given up on this series until the book comes out where the Aliens who made humans settle Safehold come back into play. I love David Weber's works however this series isn't one of them. Take a GREAT premise for a story line (first book in the series) and ruin it with 5 additional books explaining, in DETAIL, the evolution of technology from medieval to 1800's level. Very frustrating. It's like he is cutting and pasting from history books to increase the word count. This is the sixth book in the series and I stopped reading it on page 309 (jumped to the last chapter on page 542 and don't feel I missed much). I'm tired of reading how ancient armies waged war and every nitty gritty detail about sailing a Galley or how a bicycle with a coaster brake works how arbalests are inferior to flintlocks etc... I get it - Safehold was stunted technologically. When is the author going to cut to the chase? I read the synopsis of the future books in the series and I fear more of the same with the exception of them maybe moving to WWII technology...….eventually and that's just a guess based on the blimps on one of the covers. Up to this point I think these six books would have made a GREAT 2 book series.