being new and @ level 50 is killing my interest

[Niwashi]

People don't play MMO's to run old content. Ever. This isn't a single player game. This is a genre where people like to progress in the latest content along with all the other players and face new challenges that the developers create.

I certainly agree with your last sentence above, but your first sentence above indicates you draw the exact opposite conclusion from it than I do.

This is a genre where people want to progress, and the more to progress through the better. It's a genre where people want to do so together with others, which can be (and in the case of this game needs to be) done all the way through that progression. And they want to keep facing new challenges, which only happens while progressing and stops once you reach the end. On every point there, the more content there is to progress through the better.

If progression were all that made it fun no one would play MMOs because you can get that same experience playing any single player game out there.

Except for the social part about playing through it with friends (or making friends by playing through it with strangers). And for the fact that in time, after a couple expansions a whole host of content patches, MMOs generally grow to be a lot larger than most single player games. So an MMORPG is like a super long single-player RPG that you get to play together with thousands of other players.

But certainly if someone doesn't like the RPG genre in the first place, extending it into a massively multiplayer format isn't likely to change that. The whole RPG genre, spanning both its single and multiplayer sub-genres, is highly focused on progression. You're always trying to advance something, whether that's story, level, gear, or whatever.

Also, progressing in 3 year old content is not the same as progressing in something just released

Huh??? Of course it is. Content is content. Progression is progression. The content released a year ago is as good as it was a year ago. It's only "old" content to those who have already done it a zillion times and gotten tired of it, but that doesn't apply to new players. (Now there are certainly some portions of content that either of us might regard as better or worse than other portions of the content, but the timing of when they were released has no bearing on that.)