Why punish players who just want to play DoL DoH?

[Kiara1]

If Square were to start catering to people who just want to craft/gather and do nothing else, they'd have to sacrifice other content in the game to make it happen, so I rather have them not do that.

What would they really have to sacrifice?
They could remove all the locks on content that is locked behind the main quest and they would solve it.

Personally I think the main quest is rubbish and I would love if they made it optional.