Back when I beat MSQ in like... April 2014 I sat through the cut scenes and missed most of the fights. I saw no issue with that because to me, the story was most important anyway. And I smack my head at people saying to watch those cut scenes at the inn because you CAN'T. They don't have the dungeon cutscenes available at the inn, unless they changed something since last I checked.

Making it a solo instance might be best ultimately, but changing the cutscenes out to play in real time would not work and it would be a shame cuz they're some nice scenes that just would not be the same if they were realtime. But I agree that the point in these dungeons being introductory 8 man content is largely pointless at this stage because everyone ignores the mechanics anyway.