How much of the post-50 story have you gotten into? Also if they remove every "pointless" (subjective) sidequest are they to instead just have main story only with just one super mega awesome battle after the next that give out hundreds of thousands of xp so you can faceroll to max level in two days?

The early story is admittedly not all that amazing but you have to do a bit of world building, Heavensward storyline though is exceptional and the patches leading up to this were pretty good as well. It get's much better but you gotta get thru the early stuff first.