Why do people consider Bastion better than Transistor?

Everything you did in Bastion naturally progressed the entire story (except for the training rooms). While in Transistor I had to spend a while in the menus trying to get more backstory. While it was time I enjoyed learning about the world, it did bring the game to a grinding halt after every few things I unlocked to get more peoples backstory. I still really liked Transistor, the music was great, story was great, combat was amazing. Just the pace the story unfolds at was very poor.

@corevi: I skimmed the bios and listened to all the audio stuff. That's what I find damning. I don't remember any of it. It felt so thrown in and lifeless it barely made an impact, I even remember reading/listening to that stuff at the time and saying to myself

"Uhh, ok? That's it? That's all you're putting out there? ....sure...., ok." and then I forgot about it.

Which is a pretty terrible reaction for a player to have in the final, revelatory moments.

AND I want to re-iterate. I QUITE LIKE the game, the story just flubbed it in my eyes.