I'm sorta neutral to this but slightly sided on the Yes.

Reason being is I tried to get someone into this game but lost them to the 2.x slog.
The base 2.0 AAR 0-50 MSQ? fine, that wasnt an issue, but it was all the post 50 stuff from the 2.x updates that made them drop.
Sure, XIV is a more story heavy mmo, and some love that, but not everyone, and others simply dont care and just want to play the content; all people play this for different things and its often disheartening when people just tout out "why would you pick up this mmo if you dont want to do all this story"

Personally i'd rather they maybe implement something like this in the method of it skipping the story, but not the leveling, or at least not giving you a straight 60 to wreck havoc with.

Also i would LOVE for at least this to be an option for alt's because as someone with 6 characters its, well, ive seen the story enough times already and i just want to be at the end of it now its no longer fun.