ToA ARR: a bit ashamed

Hello All

I have an alt who is bard. Compared to my experience with my main (summoner), doing the story is fully enjoyable. First because bard is - for me - by far easier than summoner and secondly because I know and understand what I have to do so I play a lot more relaxed, up to comfortable, allowing for true fun.

Following this positive experience, I created a 2nd alt, a black mage (thaumaturge at start). Problem: The outcome is completely different: Zero fun! First, the job is too hard for me and secondly, since I struggle with the class, redoing the msq turns into a boring hassle.
However, I want to keep her as my low level toon to chill on days I'm tired or rl is too pushy. Just, I want to have her in Ishgard as I like its content/zones more.

Since I'm level 52 (Ishgard start quest needs 50) versus a still big package of ARR quests/trials/dungeons to be done, decision to use a ToA to skip ARR was easy. :D

I'm now in Ishgard and very happy about, but it feels like cheating... :o

Any of you already used a ToA? If yes, how was your experience?

For an alt, yes. It's intended for alts though. When they added skip packs, they had data from China that showed most people who use them only do so on their alt characters.