Quote Originally Posted by Deveryn View Post
If it's so easy, then it should be no problem to arrive at the content when you do.
Many things are easy. Many things are also boring as fuck and makes me want to drink alcohol to make it smoother to go through without me wishing for death. I like the game, I love heavensward and I like Endwalker even with those idiotic time travel shenanigans. That didn't stop me from getting extremely bored a lot of times going from one quest to another, to another. The game has a story that is fucking long and it needs things to keep players from dropping it like many dropped during ARR. Island Sanctuary could help with that, like other things do, but they decided to gate it too fucking far. I don't enjoy sightseeing, I don't enjoy mahjong and I got what I wanted (for now) from the Gold Saucer. IS would help me go through the story again on this character and would help new players get through the slog that is the MSQ sometimes. There is NO need to keep it that far and it has absolutely NO ADVANTAGES for players. It's a decision they made that will only benefit them, not the playerbase.