Please, please please please PLEASE tell me you aren't under the impression that Crystal Tower is 'new' content...

Of course it's skippable, but it was also meant to be there from launch, they just withheld it because they didn't have it ready in time. It's not new content, this isn't the 'next' thing, it's putting in place what was supposed to be there on day one. 2.2 will contain the next step for Binding Coil. This is in no way indicative that content patches will take steps backwards. 2.1 contains something that belongs -before- the final step because of a delay, not because they intentionally 'took a step back'.

There seem to be people who are looking at CT's iLvl 80 status and freaking out, throwing out wild assumptions such as that every other patch will be an in-between step rather than a step forward, over a 1-time circumstance with a dungeon.