Oh this is neat. I've always been curious about the Warbreaker drafts, from a writing craft perspective, though I've never found time to really go through them.
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The Warbreaker and Dawnshard drafts are something I want to look through someday, but never got around to it because that's a lot of time to devote to reading a worse version of a book I've already read lol. I remember one or two interesting minor differences from skimming individual scenes, but that's about it.
There is one other story I know of which has been partially released, The Eyes (a precursor to Skyward), about fifteen pages of which were posted to the Writing Excuses Patreon. However, in addition to feeling kind of iffy about pointing people to paying $10 for a very small sample from a very rough draft, the tier the file was attached to does not actually exist anymore, so I'm not sure whether subscribing even will give it to you now or not. As such, I've left it off the list.