I don't necessarily agree with you on many points, I've had great breakfast here in Santiago, and in some places in SDQ as well. Could it be that your housekeeper being of a poor background is or was unfamiliar with your type of breakfast?
Chances are if you have someone acting as housekeeper and all this poor person knows is how to cook without seasoning, the best you could expect from her is mediocre food each and every time. This however, does not mean everyone cooks in such a way. It just means that this poor person (your housekeeper) was taught this way.
My wife (although Dominican) makes great pancakes and omlets!!! Finger licking good even!!!
Feel free to disagree.
My comments are my experiences in DR over the past 37 years. NOT just one housekeeper. And the "poor person" in question is one of the best cooks we know - except for eggs, haha. A couple of sunny-side-up eggs shouldn't be so difficult.
Over all those decades, the only good breakfast eggs I've had were at the Hispaniola and Hotel Santo Domingo breakfast buffets. I've never had a decent soft-boiled egg or fried egg anywhere else - hotels, restaurants and private homes included.
Like the_gorgon said, they like to deep fry everything in DR. Don't know why either.
That's NOT to say that good "American style" breakfasts don't exist in hotels or restaurants or homes in DR
I just haven't found them.
I've NEVER eaten in any American restaurant in DR, not ever. But I'd definitely make an exception for Denny's once in awhile.