I would be remiss if I didn't say that I had a blast running my players through "A Great Upheaval," which is the intro adventure for Storm King's Thunder that replaces 1-5 if you aren't coming straight from LMoP, but was also used as the intro adventure for that season of Adventurers League and thus available for free at https://www.dmsguild.com/product/189150/DDIA05-Storm-Kings-Thunder-A-Great-Upheaveal-5e

That said, not everyone who has run it has had as much of a good time as I have. I think the reason is if you look at it as a big bag of stuff you can use to make an interesting world for your players and if they do weird things with them that's even more interesting it's probably a blast to play. But if you're looking for something that provides very clear "first A happens, then B happens, then C happens" it's a little too disjointed and uneven.

Maybe think of it as a bag of Lego bricks that have some of the weirdest shapes you can imagine and half a sheet of instructions that seem to end up making some sort of lumpy helicopter. I spread them out and my players made an awesome T-Rex piloting an even cooler jet plane and I got all the credit. I can't guarantee that's going to happen for you, but it might.