New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[Bonbori]

I want people to be able to get to relevent, fun (arguably, apparently), content without having to spend dozens, or a hundred hours on ARR-SB to get to it

FF14 tries to keep most of its content relevant and populated even long past its expiration date. Between roulettes, WTs, relics (except SB), mount farming and such, and various revival communities that try to keep even things like Rival Wings and Diadem possible to do by organising expeditions, anyone is able to find a group for anything in the game, and pretty much everything in the game will reward them with tomestones, glamours, mounts, minions, etc.

So I disagree with the idea that only the latest expansion matters and everything that came before it is a waste of time.

I came in towards the middle of Stormblood's patch cycle slightly over a year ago so I had to run through all of AAR, HW and Stormblood to catch up. But I did (and then did it all over, including most of the game's side content, on an alt, and by now both of them have almost nothing left to do except farming the last couple of dogs). So why exactly should any new player coming into the game last year, today, or a few years from now, not be expected to have the same experience? In fact, I just made another alt last week to accompany a returning friend through the whole game, and she even insisted on starting over from level one. I don't know if she'll reach Shadowbringers by the time it's released, but that doesn't really matter - it will be around for at least the next 2 years and even afterwards all its content will still be accessible (with various catch-up mechanics such as tomestone gear and the Echo making them easier to unlock and complete) whenever she gets around to it.