Possible level/story jumps....really?

[Lambdafish]

i play the game as i love the crafting system and see my main as a DoL/DoH. i don't want a level jump, just the ability to go and gather/craft in areas of HW and any new expansions and continue through the classes that interest me. Removing the gates would be a lesser of 2 evils right?

To be fair, crafters/gatherers get the short end of the stick anyway because the MSQ lore is tied to battle content (dungeons and trials). The funny thing is that doing this would fix everything, as levelling a crafter and doing its class quests takes far less time than going through MSQ (or even levelling a battle class). There would still need to be restrictions for getting the new jobs (say... one level 60 battle job, and completed the praetorium), but I could see this being a solution.