Thoughts on Isgard Lockout.

[kyuven]

The new jobs will start at level 30. It's common practice for something that starts at a later level to require something at a higher level to unlock.
Thus, we need to get access to Ishgard to unlock the Ishgard classes.

Not really. Its common sense actually miss.

When I started, I wanted to play in Ul'Dah as an archer. I couldn't, but because the game was still fun, I decided to start out as a monk and unlock it later.
If you really want to play the game, you'll be willing to put forth the effort.
He would never, ever have been able to start as a DRK anyway, even if they didn't gate it behind Ishgard.

Which still is an anti-social stupid feature that doesn't allow you to play with friends.

It's not DESIGNED for you to run with friends. It's designed so your friends don't have to wait 2 hours for a tank/healer to suddenly want to do X low level dungeon. The roulette is designed to reduce Queue times for low level players, not so people can group up and do them together.