Personaly, I do not care if someone wants to skip contant, since its their business to do what they want ingame, but I do fear what will happen once SE sees that a big group are skipping stuff. I do not want SE to tailor their contant to those type of players, I do not want short Main Story Quests, I do not want them adding less and less Side Quests and I do not want this game to be one where the new contant is only made of dungeon running.

I do not want this game to be a exact copy World of Warcraft with Final Fantasy theme. Story is important, I reckon one of the reasons why we are playing Final Fantasy XIV is this reason. So my advice to SE would be:

1. Remove the filler quests (the fetch quests ) from 2.1 -2.55.
2. Since new Jobs will start at level 30, let players who have not reached the new expansion (storywise) unlock those classes and play from level 30-50. When they reach 50, they need to finish 2.1-2.55 quests so they can enter Ishgard, same could also be said for the new expansion.