Is our sub fee not enought

[Reynhart]

The story jump potion does exactly what you seem so adamantly against, except SE wants to charge people the cost of an additional expansion for it. How is it magically acceptable only if SE tries to gouge their players?

It's not, I'm against the jump potion. But at least charging it is an incentive to not rely on it.

By the way, just because someone wants to do Stormblood as soon as they hit 60 doesn't mean they wouldn't want to later go back and finish the Heavensward story (the same with ARR).

Sure, but any excuse for wanting to do Stormblood first is a bad excuse. The worst being "New players will want to tackle new content"

Here's a fun fact: You can only "force" somebody to do something by holding them at gunpoint if they "want" to live prior. If they want to die instead, you're not going to have any success with that method, they're happily gonna say:"No, eff you."

Seriously, stop with the "will to live" comparison, that's absurd...

On the dress topic, you're not forced to wear that dress, so any hoop you have to jump through to have it is a deliberate choice from you. Don't expect people to pity you for your choices.