I just bought this game about a month ago, I've enjoyed the MSQ for the most part. Finding out every single thing in the game was gated behind them was kind of a shock, since I wasn't really aware of that coming into it. I tried to get my friend to play, but when he realised he couldn't do dungeons without doing the MSQ he was put off buying the game. It's really daunting to new players, finding out you have to grind through all these quests, and then spend a bunch of time gearing up towards the end of it to even finish the questline, before you can ever do anything in the expansion thats coming out.

I get that the story is important, but gating a lot of the content behind quests some people might not really enjoy grinding through is kind of silly if you ask me.