Being told you did something isn't nearly the same as experiencing it for yourself.

Sure, you can argue that you can just go back and do it, but it loses context.
people can just suck it up and do the Main Story. Hell, skip all the dialogue if you're in THAT much of a hurry.

I guess what I'm trying to say is ... Suck it up and do the story.
I do NOT want to see XIV take WoWs route where the game is so jumbled around with broken timelines that it no longer makes sense, even for the people that were there from the beginning.