Honestly this is the best time to be a new player because its inbetween expansions and there is no end game content to be running right now. Sure there are people running EX trials to get doggos or trying to clear savage before SHB. Everyone has a to-do-list I am sure.

But to say the new player experience is ruined because they want to be lvl 70, ivl400 so they can run endgame content is just crazy. This is a final fantasy game, and last time I checked the game is heavily influenced by its story. Why get excited over a story expansion if you are just going to skip it all.