That's entirely my point. They just had a flat reduction in exp to make people get to mid and high levels faster. But those first levels are still boring as hell and definitely not going to charm any new people into sticking with the game.

They COULD have made a few more low level quests, some mini-dungeons, some exploration quests, etc. But if they add those in now, who cares? How many people are going to go do them? 10% of the population? 20%? A very generous 40%? How many people WON'T be pissed that they added in lowbie content, when practically everyone has a job at 40+?

Low level content is just as important as mid and high level content, but there's no way in hell SE is going to put effort into low level content right now. They just made 1-20 a breeze as a band-aid fix.