Quote Originally Posted by Niwashi View Post
This thread (and several others) are saying that a core aspect of FFXIV should be removed from the game because they personally don't like it or some of their friends don't.
Can we at least debate with some honesty? Instead of misrepresenting other people's opinions.

To your point of there being lore reasons as to why you're in such and such a dungeon. There may be a lore reason that the character is there, but that does not necessitate that area being locked down except as a game mechanics choice. If we wanted to bring lore into this then why are you able to go back and replay those zones once you've beaten them. Based on lore, those enemies should be defeated. You can either handwave it or assume the player (not the character) is time traveling. Gaining access to places you shouldn't yet is effectively the same thing, but in the other direction.