Man people are spoiled nowadays after the introduction of roulettes and even PF. Back in the day, when there was ONLY DF and no such thing as roulettes when people would rather speedrun WP, it would take HOURS to even get a party in CM/Prae and if it was a first time for me and I needed the clear, I would damn well skip cutscenes because you couldn't do the fights in the inn unlike watching cutscenes.

People asking for gates/promoting less people to queue for those instances are out of their minds and have obviously never been in the situation I just mentioned.

New players won't quit due to cutscene skipping. They will quit when waiting for HOURS doesn't get them any closer to progressing through content.