I find it funny how much I read people laughing at this topic and mocking saying "you want a free skip".

Well, in the future, when we hit level 100, 110, 120...

When the story is so dragged to a new player that they choose not to play...

When the "hey kid! Want to play a new game? One that you have to pay to play, pay the monthly fee, pay for a bigger inventory (monthly), and pay to get where your friends are (and you'll have to pay for each expansion you want to skip. And pay again if you want your class to gain levels)" doesn't work...

It will be sweet to come back here and laugh too.

To the author of this post, I would like to say that I was thinking these days about how SE intended to make the game more "smooth" for people who have just started playing, when expansions pass level 100. I found your suggestion interesting, since we would have already established a bond with the main characters (scions). The real problem would be characters that appear after HW and make their appearance in various expansions, for example: Graha, Emet, Gosetsu.

Unfortunately, FFXIV doesn't seem to have been made for this kind of thing. SE will leave it as is and prefer appeal to the skips.