To be honest i don't know why exactly people defend the terrible MSQ experience.

All the content in the game is locked behind MSQ. It takes hundreds of hours to complete it. And its just repetitive go here, talk to his person, go back.

When i had to do the MSQ grind i hated it, and with a new expansion coming out i can understand why new players feel this rush to get through it.

They want to get to the new stuff and play with friends/experience the new expansion and jobs.

People like to give WoW a lot of crap, but at least its new player experience is much better than FF14's new player experience.