Playing an expansion as current content has been a lacklustre MMO experience

[Iscah]

You say that, yet things like Hildibrand, Postmoogle, Variant, Tataru.. Are all separated and are still a part of the world lore. It can be done, I'm just advocating for more of it instead of pushing it all directly into linear MSQ. How is this idea so difficult to comprehend?

You're not comprehending things either – specifically, the difference between a sidequest that affects nothing but its immediate environment and doesn't substantially alter the state of any participants who will appear in later plots, and an MSQ chapter that drives the larger story forward by altering people or politics, or possibly something that won't make sense after the plot changes something big later. The sidequest can be left by the wayside until you feel like doing it, and the main plot doesn't suffer for its absence, but some things just need to happen where they do.

I'm not fond of the Loporrits arc either – there seems to be some contractual requirement for "annoying tribe of cute tricksters who delay the protagonists around the level X3 mark" – but as written you can't just cut it out and make people come back to it later, because the whole point is that they were trying to delay you at that point in the story, and then it ultimately shifts the state of your trust in them, which affects the rest of their presence in the plot. Coming back to it later would make no sense.

Again, you're putting this in the context of the story AS IT'S WRITTEN CURRENTLY. Please have a little imagination and understand what I'm actually talking about here. I've given examples, and no you don't need all 200-300 hours of text to understand the nuances of the story and it's world conflicts. No it's not necessary to be in perfect A B C order, considering we have thousands of years of MEDIA to understand that it's not necessary. People can still enjoy the story without going through Eureka, Bozja, raids.

Yes I am talking about the story as written currently, because you're talking about taking that story and cutting it into chunks.

And I'm not sure why you've swung into Bozja while complaining about being forced to do the MSQ in linear sequence. That does sit outside of the A B C order, which is why it's fine that you're not forced to do it.