Show me those number because honestly I only see a hand full at most that not a astonishing number that's pure hyperbole, your trying to justify your claim with just posts if you've notice most the up votes are against it and allot more just rebut other people moaning. Second it not about how it hurts us personally if other people skip the story it a personal preference on how we as JRPG gaming like the progress in a different way compare to say western games.

It would be like us going to WoW etc, and going on there forums and start saying astonishing number of post in this <thread> who have outright been UNABLE to convince their friends to play this game (or continue playing it) because of the sheer lack of story content. No idea where you're getting "two people" from.