Can we get some non-linear content?

[Nalien]

This. There's not point in non-linearity when most of the community wants to spend as little time as possible on content in order to get tomes fast. I'm fine with a straight line.

That's actually a problem with how SE handled Tomestone rewards. Back when AK was first adjusted so people couldn't skip 90% of it, it was obvious SE didn't want people skipping mobs. Instead of adding Gil, they should have made mobs drop Tomestones and adjusted the numbers rewarded/required accordingly, even add Tomestones to chests. That way if you're farming Tomestones it's much more likely you'll kill everything, much more likely dungeons could play out like old RPGs where you reach the boss and go "I need to turn back and check that left turn I didn't take", though I guess some people would hate that.

When dungeons have paths people just pick one and stick to it, so I see no point.

By this logic, SE should just delete Amdapor Keep, Wanderer's Palace, Pharos Sirius, Copperbell Mines (Hard), Haukke Manor (Hard), The Lost City of Amdapor, and Halatali (Hard), because Brayflox's Longstop (Hard) is the best option which absolutely everyone does for Tomestones. Why have multiple dungeons to do when people will pick one and stick to it? Why bother adding 3 dungeons an update when everyone is just going to pick one?

No. People like variety, SE was praised when they added new dungeons - or even just Mythology to Wanderer's Palace - to the game back when everyone hated running Amdapor Keep back to back. Now that 2/3s of the dungeon we get are just old ones moved around a bit, which naturally requires less effort from the developers, they should be putting that extra effort into make the dungeons themselves less linear by giving them more variety. Heck, just more interesting in general. Where are the traps and puzzles RPGs usually have in their dungeons? Take something like Amdapor Keep; if you fall off at Demon Wall, should that be an instant kill? I think it would have been more interesting if it put you in a basement type zone with a different boss. That is a terrible example, but it's still an example.