100+ old quests to access expansion content...?

[Niwashi]

That's a huge set of assumptions you have just made.

No more than you did yourself when you claimed "Like many players, I don't read anything." You're certainly not the only person who buys a game and doesn't want to actually play it, but it's far from common. Wanting to relax and play with your friends is great, but you can do that at any point in the game. It's no reason to skip everything.

Besides, if you are skipping every cutscene and clicking through every dialog, it will hardly take any time at all. It's certainly nowhere near the amount of content you've already done in the past week going from 1-50 and reaching the original endgame. I'm not really sure why someone would take that leveling for granted and yet balk at a few quests that don't take nearly such a time commitment.

Unless you are playing 24/7 the pre-HW story takes alot longer than a week. Some people only have a few hours a day to play, if that. The story is going to take a lot longer than a week. I came in late and had to play catch up by the time I got to post 2.0 content all the patches up to 2.55 had been released, it took me over a month's time to complete it.

Then I doubt you did the entire 2.0 line and leveled from 1-50 in a week as the OP claimed to have done. For someone who can finish 2.0 in a week, the 2.1 - 2.55 part is trivial in comparison.