Well, obviously there was never a real "need" for jump potions but more so a desire of people who dont want to spend 4 days leveling/questing. Dont get me wrong, I never thought jump potions were or are a good idea (and after I met several cluesless level 60+ people in various contents who most likely bought jump potions I'm even more so of the opinion that they shouldnt have been added).

I dont actually understand your intention with this thread though - jump potions arent going away, infact they lifted the restrictions on how many you can buy. So is this supposed to let potential buyers of jump-potions know that they dont need them? They might very well feel otherwise - 4 days in total playtime are 96 hours just to reach HW. And then its the same amount of time for the HW MSQ. And on top of that about the same amount (or a little less, because not so many patches yet) for SB. So we're looking at about 250 hours just for the MSQ - something I really enjoy about the game. For the longest time I had trouble to understand why people would want to skip the part of the game I enjoy the most, but hey, other people like other things, I guess and for someone who wants to only raid or even play with their friends who are already at SB-endgame 250 hours are... a lot of time. Think about someone who can only play about 2 hours a day - thats 125 days or about 4 months to reach SB-endgame. 4 months, not 4 days. So... I can see why someone might want to skip that.
I agree that there is no need for jump potions - neither to skip the story or to level a character. I've been getting about 1 level each day on my samurai from just doing leveling+trails+alliance roulette.
Leveling is easy.
Questing is easy.
But both are demanding, timewise.
There might not be a "need" for jump potions - people with all jobs at 70 and newbies reaching Shinryu everyday (without paying for jump/leveling potions) are proving that. But there cleary is a desire for them... and I can only hope that specially people who are buying story-jump potions are making a very careful and considerate choice there.
I dont wanna sound rude but I'm not sure why you've made this post - to discourage people from buying jump potions? To encourage the removal of jump potions? The first one is unlikely - I doubt that people who are buying those potions are on the forums. The second one is just as unlikely - its good money for SE.
So... do you just want to discuss this? hear other opinions on the matter?