It was a deliberate change a while back as they recognise that with the best will in the world not everyone can log in every day and were consistently missing out on the high value rewards. Thats why day 21 is usually the big reward for the month

I've had that thought a couple of times too, but then I think about it a little more and I think it's really healthy that people aren't made to feel strongly about missing a couple of days of logging on per month.
For me it's a much healthier way of doing daily login rewards when it's decided to do them at all.
I played since beta, and was there when the early really epic login rewards were introduced. (You can check out the monthly history here: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Daily_Rewards/August_2018 ). This year of anniversary has really seen them pick up again too
Some months used to not have rewards in the last couple of days. Now they do, but earnable in-game ones which seems nicely balanced to me.
And while the lovely crates and other goodies made me feel happy, it also made the game feel more unhealthy to my mental health, and planted the thought that I had to log in every day or I'd miss out on stuff I'd never be able to earn another way. (I think most or all comsetics or houseguests from daily login has never recurred anywhere else in the game). I've been away on holidays or exchange stuff sometimes, and been really sick for for more than a month a few times and missed some great things I'd have loved sadly. Daily reards to me, seems like a bit of a predatory mechanic to keep people engaged.

I can se your point though. That the people who make the loyal effort to log in daily should be rewarded for that with really interesting rewards. I have done, and still do some months, and can get the feelling you have. Sometimes at the end of the month with the last reward I even feel like I'm a sad person with no life and nothing to make me miss eso, so great login rewards is a little dopamine-pick-me-up for not having other stuff in my life, or for prioritizing eso.
But I still think it's much better this way with good rewards early on, so eso doesn't get in the way of rl, but is an entertaining game that shouldn't feel chore-like.
I think the rewards with some decent tel-var, a bit of gold and some ap, are ok rewards, a little meagre, but to me that's a good thing at the end of the day.

Edited because I'm bad at spelling.

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I can already see the topics in my mind about people complaining about not being able to login because of maintenances or bugs.

Exactly. I've seen several of those over the years.
I think I remember some around christmas time a year with a late december mount reward. Which I suppose is fair since loads of people go away over christmas and don't like missing out because they prioritize family and they don't have access to eso over the holiday.
On the other hand it is fun to log in on christmas day and get a mount.

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Daily_Rewards/December_2018

Yup, don't log in because you're sick or working or away or the server is down during your gaming time, you deserve nothing. That's what OP is suggesting, right?
Same as if you aren't prepared to spend 1000 hours doing the same thing over and over and over again to find some lead or get some piece of equipment, you don't deserve to get it.

100% agree.

We got a few good rewards within the year with a few crown crates and mounts, but what we get now can't be anything but disappointing, imo, when you are an endgame player with money and ESO+.

Already have the dungeons, the given materials have a global value of 50k, less than 100k for furnishings, 15k value for inks...

This less than 30% of what I produce in a day.

But I can imagine it's a nice month for ppl who don't have ESO+ nor money.

I wish the rewards were (far) more interesting for endgame players.

(and please, stop giving us crown food, it's crap and everybody with a decent build will throw that away)