As I've said in my review above, I too don't like this song. Their harmonies are as tight as any other song they've ever done, but singing a poem just does not work; not even the perfectly pristine delivery of it can mask the fact it was written to be spoken. As such I still prefer their other famous harmonies (SBR, Lyin' Eyes, D-D/D(R), BOML etc) much more than I ever could for NMWITW, despite arguably the delivery being better.
One example that comes to mind is one of my favoruite songs ever, Black Oak Arkansas's
version of Dixie (that's a YT link to it, it's safe to click). Their harmonies, whilst decent, are nowhere near as good as the Eagles', yet because what they are harmonising is a song it is much more pleasant and flowing; NMWITW, whilst I appreciate it probably means a lot to Don, just doesn't work for me.
(I appreciate a song named Dixie probably isn't the best thing to link to given events in SC this last week, but I trust you all see why I used it as an example.)