Another argument given is:

"Just play Palace of the Dead"

I admit that Heaven on High has made some serious improvements on the Deep Dungeon concept, but can you honestly tell me that grinding Palace of the Dead over and over again for new players (which new players have to also find out is the most efficient way to get classes to lvl 50 / 60) is engaging content? The one person I've convinced to stay in the game is taking a break from the game because of how mind numbing the grind is from lvl 1-60 from just playing Palace of the Dead over and over again. He's a bit of a completionist so he wants to be able to choose which class to play through Stormblood content as.

That being said, said friend of mines should probably just buy the level skip instead of slowly murdering his soul

Palace of the Dead can be pretty alright, but once you get to your 100th+ play-through for the sake of experience grinding, your soul may as well join the dead inside the palace. Now this won't affect me at all given I have all my classes at lvl 70, but is there a possibility to add or buff alternative ways of getting experience from lvls 1-60, or simply further buff the experience points received from Palace of the Dead?