The story is great, but it blatantly gets in the way of the rest of the game

[TaleraRistain]

I never said anything about skipping the current expansions MSQ that should still be gated behind the MSQ for obvious reasons.

Herein lies the problem. "You let me skip all the MSQ up to this point. Why do I have to do it now? I don't care about the story. I just want to get to the 'real game' doing raids and stuff."

The story being a structure that all other content grows from is something unique to this game. And degrading that structure by allowing it to be bypassed without a price tag will damage that structure. They have said they may consider a new starting point at some point in the future but they will need to be careful they don't de-legitimize the importance of story as the root of the game and I imagine that factors into why they don't make it easier to skip.