I understand that it may be tedious to grind through 1yr plus of content in order to access the areas in the upcoming expansion. Unfortunatly for newer ppp, the game has been out a while and all this content was spread out in that time frame. As far as complaining about it, the Expansion, is just that, an expansion. Heavansward begins following the events that ended in 2.0

Being forced to do mainstory? Heavens forbid! a company forces me to do mainstory in their games i purchased to play. Sarcasm aside

Grin n bear it, its worth it. In my opinion at least.