Many love the story, some don't care, some have seen them all before and don't want to watch them all again.
Why does FFXI not have the ability to skip these long cut-scenes still? This is such a disrespectful waste of players time on a game that is trying to be more casual friendly. These things should always be an option.
When you do CoP, you can warp faster but it still takes forever because you are forced to watch these boring cut-scenes in their entirety. This is off-putting, I still haven't done many of the WoTG missions on my alt because I just can't be bothered to put up with watching long boring custs I'm not interested in. I recently did CoP from start to finish and it wasn't fun in any way at all, it was boring and annoyingly slow for no reason.
Great stories and cut-scenes are amazing, a great asset. They should always be a choice though. Not allowing people to skip these is going against the basic changes you are trying to add to FFXI in not wasting peoples time needlessly.