@Astral145 -- If the new player wants to be taken through unsynced by a friend or two, they're more than welcome to watch the cutscenes. I'm sure their friends would let them, too. But there's zero reason to be unable to skip them if you are doing the content unsynced/with an undersized party. It's just an arbitrary restriction. The devs can keep the restriction if the content is being done synced, but I personally see no need for it in unsynced.

I'm all for this. I also think if there's no new player in a group, the cutscenes should be skippable.