If the books are reasonably complete in themselves, I don't really mind if there's a larger incomplete story behind it all. There's always something else going to happen next.
I haven't yet read Way of Kings, so I don't know how much that applies, but for instance Mistborn: The Final Empire is a perfectly reasonable standalone and also the first book of a series.
Then again, I'm quite happy to space things out and defer the end of a series myself, even if it is complete. It's only when there are whole books of treading water that I get fed up.
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