Yeah, I can understand that.

As for the age thing, though, I thought one of the more interesting aspects of the book is the many older PoV characters - including Simon, Miriamele, Eolair - and how they look back on the past, as well as how they interact with the younger ones. Clash of generations is very much a theme here, between various groups of characters. You may well say he's overdoing it with the PoVs because even within one geographical location / one main plotline, he goes for three or four PoVs rather than just one or two. But that does have its benefits in some ways, including this one - Simon and Miriamele's grandson Morgan may be a whiny teenager who seems to care for little but booze and women, but by reading about it from Simon's PoV, Miriamele's, his own, his sister's,... you get a more nuanced picture.