All good points! Thank you for expanding.

Other disreccomnds: Terry Goodkind and David Weddings. Also Patrick Rothfuss and GRRM, because their respective series are likely to remain unfinished. Joe Abercrombie's First Law might be a reasonable low fantasy substitute for ASOIAF.

There was also a lot of Neil Stephenson. I would recommend most of his work with caveats.

In addition to your missing list: where are the alternate histories? The Yiddish Policeman's Union seems like a good fit.