Yeah, it's kind of been the bane of fresh 50's.
I hit level fifty about three weeks after 2.0 came out and even with four of us from our FC in those dungeons together, other people still spazzed out about watching cutscenes in the Inn.
I was on a ps3 back then, and I literally got locked out of the final boss trying to skip the cutscenes. It's a pretty horrible way to end that part of the story line unfortunately.
The good news is, as stated, the groups basically get a lot better from there and luckily most of the cutscenes occur before or after the encounters, and not during it.

Congrats on being fifty also!