So, let's speculate about future Story developments (SPOILERS!!!)

[Fenral]

Honestly, the fact that this is a MMO does more "harm" to the potential story than the Culinarian quest;[etc]

I'm sorry if you thought I was targeting the Culinarian quest specifically, but I wasn't, and you seem to have just stated the point I was trying to explain the entire time. That's the only reason I brought up Malgus, honestly. Not to say "this was better" but that "this is possible." It was a bold rule to break, and they broke it. Old Republic already had an implicit "low level quests are always chronologically before higher level quests" style of storytelling, which is ultimately why it worked.

This game's pattern, as I see it, seems to be "pre-50 quests are before the Praetorium." The only truly blatant offender so far is the Summoner questline, and not because of the pic I showed before, but because it doesn't have extra dialogue to account for player knowledge of the Ascians. It's not a "plot hole," but it does turn Y'mihtra into Captain Obvious.

To clear things up for people reading this and my prior posts: I'm not being a jerk, I'm playing the devil's advocate.