The thing is if they are going through the story leveling, gearing, and getting acquainted to the world and game will come naturally. The story isn't THAT long and it only makes sense for a FF game for people to actually play through the story. Your idea will ruin the experience for what I believe is the majority of the players who actually WANT to experience this game. Your suggesting will make it tougher to do so, making the "meta" way to take this abridged version. Though people have problems with gated content I think SE in a lot of ways have done a good job using it to make sure people keep filtering through content making it so even new players have other people to experience it with and aren't left hanging. They have put things like desynch in to help new players catch up and continue adjusting rewards and Exp knowing people want to be with friends. They do this all in a way though that maintains the integrity of the game. Your idea would jeopardize this integrity. This is a FF game and story is an integral party. I disagree with your idea.