I always felt that some quests could either be removed or condensed. Like is it REALLY important that I place perfume on these chocobos? Do I need to keep visiting Minifilia/Alphinaud after every quest? Maybe it is too much work to fix something like that, but if it were possible to cut out the random bullcrap of being an errand boy, that would be great.

That being said, se has made amazing strides alse where to make running arr quicker and more efficient. Going from 1-50 takes almost no effort and it becomes almost a drain on the wallet to keep up gear wise bc you no longer have to run Brayflox 7 times to get to Qarn. The msq alone almost never gets locked behind lvl if 1. Im doing my leveling roulette and 2. Hunting logs or an occasional fate. We used to have to fate farm to 50. Now northern thanalan is barren and empty. Sure part of this is do to potd but even without doing potd or squadrons as a newbie means you still shoot up in levels. So overall se HAS made getting through arr much easier. Back in hw I made an alt before potd existed, and it took me almost a week of grinding as a tank to get to cap. Now I can casually level to 60 in that time while avoiding squadrons and potd.

On top of it all, we are getting new game plus. So skipping cutscenes and taking the msq exp and running wont be an issue.