Progression locks are bad

[Callinon]

Going forward I'd really like to not see raids locked behind other raids.

WTF am I talking about? Well I played at launch (starting in beta) but wasn't interested in doing Coil or EX primals at the time. Took a break for a while, came back in 2.3.

Now I'd really like to do Coil. I'd really like to do EX primals. But I can't... why can't I?

Because I haven't done them already.

Seriously.. take a look at your servers' party finders and count the number of groups for things like T5 or Garuda EX that aren't "Make sure you've done the fight at least 20 times before now, if we see a soldiery bonus we're burning your house down."

Now, quite recently I've found an FC that's willing to help me get the clears I need to progress, but this is a situation that never should have arisen to begin with.

NB: I realized that my exact problem wasn't spelled out here and thought I should fix that, so here it is:

Nobody cares about T5 anymore. It doesn't drop interesting loot. It isn't a PF-friendly fight. The only reason to do it is because it locks T6-9 behind it. This is silly. There's no reason for it to do that.

If Alexander is broken up into chunks the way Coil has been, please make all of them available at once upon release. Don't require progression through earlier parts to do later parts. Let me worry about putting the story together myself. Me experiencing the story in the proper sequence is less important than me being able to do the content AT ALL.