Yep. Had a buddy who was interested in Heavensward who had quit around when 2.1 dropped... he made it somewhere towards the end of the 2.x patch MSQ grind and then quit because he was sick of it. Felt bad for him.

I recently leveled a fresh alt from 1-60 and got a new perspective on the leveling experience that new players see.

2.x patch MSQ is not that bad the problem is there's SO MUCH of it and it's a really weird contrast to the leveling experience. They need to revisit it and either add a "digest mode" that allows you to skip certain portions, or cut out some of the tedious quests that are completely meaningless to the story. They should leave the option in the game for players who want to do all of it, but for people who just wanna get it over with there should be an option to do so.