Possible level/story jumps....really?

[Enkidoh]

Oh goddess no... please... please tell me this is a bad joke.... please pinch me because I think I'm sleeping and having a nightmare... o.o

The thing with "people complaining about not being able to access Ishgard without levelling/playing through the storyline" is misleading, as really the main reason new players want to access Ishgard is just to unlock the new Jobs and not the city itself. If new Jobs were made accessible from the starting cities (like what was done with ROG/NIN) then it would not be an issue. And if you can have players skip ahead levels to level cap without doing any levelling in between, then what is the whole point of having exp, levels and unlocking abilities in the first place? It creates a whole generation of ignorant, lazy players who do not know anything about their class, how abilities work, how to act in a party, dungeon or raid, positioning etc. It basically reduces the game to a mindless action fest.

I really hope Yoshi does not follow through with this idea (the level skipping I mean) - I can sort of understand the 'no story requirement to access the next expansion area' though and respect that, even though personally I would much prefer it to be restricted again to storyline completion, but I'm probably in the minority here, as I feel this would contradict SE's statements in the past about this game being not 'pay to win' and content based. But I digress...