Possible level/story jumps....really?

[Judah_Brandt]

It's possible to be a player that doesn't care about gil, items, or experience points, and only cares about playing challenging raids. For an experienced mmorpg player, level 1-50 is just extended tutorial and extremely boring.

So they're playing the game for no reason? That makes no sense. If there really is an audience for that, and that's got to be just about the smallest fraction of the small fraction that actually plays the Savage content, then they may as well just sell a separate game entirely called "FFXIV: Raid Simulator" and avoid muddying up the entirety of content for everyone else.