Apologies to OP for the derail, I can tell neither of us is gonna convince the other so I'm gonna stop (but just to answer Zeon's question, if someone watching cutscenes for the first time ruins your tome run, you're the unreasonable one, not them. That's where I feel the situations are not equivalent)

I think everyone will generally agree with stronger incentives to run MSQ, and even taking the slight differences in length between the two into account part of that should be shoring up the difference in rewards between the two instances.