How do newly chreated characters / new players supposed to progress naturually

[Dimitrias]

From lvl's 1-50 you pretty much can progress through that like its been since 2.0's relaunch, but once you get to lvl 50 the game seems to want to push you from like i50 to i100.

I created a new character just to craft,farm,gather, but I'm getting to the point I may be getting into adventuring again.

It will be like when I play single player games I always progress the same way each time I playthrough them, but with fffxiv that seems like that wont be possible.

It sux for new players to once they hit 50 and can't experience the game like we did in the past, or is it still possible to progress naturally with endgame, from 2.0 to 2.4?

It also seems like you would get Caried through all the older content aswell, and some people would like a challenge