Main Scenario Restriction Bloodstorm - Very Very Bad idea.

[Neophyte]

I don't think you understand the mindset of people who play for story. It's not about doing everything as quickly and efficiently as possible.
There's no rush to complete the content, because the content is the point, not a prerequisite for the rest of the game. And you're ignoring content that takes a long time by its gated nature, like the beast tribe quests I mentioned earlier, or squadrons. Or leveling other classes (for their stories).

I was talking about the minimum a player only caring for story has to do to be able to actually enjoy the story. I'm not talking about specific player-related preferences, like how much time they want to let pass between 2 main scenario quests.

The claim was: FF is a story driven game, the story is the main focus. My claim therefore is: There should be a big crowd of people who actually only want to do the story and reduce the rest as much as possible, which is actually a thing SE caters to (able to catch up to required ilvl for MSQ within 2 weeks max). Where is this crowd?

As I said, beast tribes are a thing... squadrons, well you only need 1 month to get to the last "story" mission. And really if you want to count Squadrons to FF14 "story" then we might have to talk about the quality of FF14 "story", because that's sure not a flagship in that regards.