You dont need the story.

[ZedxKayn]

However, what I really doubt is that this (rather passionate community as whole) will disparage anyone who chooses to skip the story.

Oh but it very much happens, you can't mention that you skip the story anywhere not private without being snubbed sometimes by the majority of people replying to you. Every single time I ever mentioned I don't care about the story, on reddit, in the NN, in party chat, one or more people ALWAYS had something to say about it and of course seen many instances of this happening to other people.

Hell I even got dogpiled in my NN once for telling a sprout who didn't care much about the story and asked if it was alright to skip it that he won't lose much by skipping it because I was "trying to ruin the game for them" or some stupid shit like this.