Dude, no. Nothing needs to be culled from the story. Yeah, some of the quests were pretty lame and lol-worthy, but most of them had some point to them, and the all aided progression. I will give to you that the level 50 quests sometimes felt pointless since you didn't get XP, but that's about as much as I'll give you.

Besides, you clearly don't give a crap about story. You referenced an apparently story character in the game as "the Elf dude," which is telling.