Could not agree more with the OP. It severely deters the drive to level alts. There's literally 100 quests between original game and expansion, and even if you skip every video, sprint to every destination, and get into dungeons instantly...it still takes WAAAAAAAAY too long to get to the expansion. I could see you having to do it once for sure...but it's such a pain to do it all over again on alts. Honestly the grind from 1-50, and the grind from 50-60 are much less annoying than that stupid gap between 50 and expansion. Now this is coming from someone who has been playing all along, I can't even imagine how that must deter players who are returning to the game since the base game and just want to play the new expansion that they just purchased. It's very poorly designed and I hope they don't do this in the next expansion.