Is leveling broken in this game?

[SniperDaria]

I have been playing for about 6 weeks and I am level 70. I have been doing only MSQ and unlock quests for the most part. No side quests, roulettes, leves or fates. I am still constantly so over-leveled for the content I am doing that everything is trivial.

In addition, I keep hitting dead zones like at 50 and 60 where I can't get job quests or gear upgrades until I slog through 40-50 MSQs at which point I enter the new expansion even more over-leveled.

I just hit Stormblood and I am 70. I asked in the Novice Network and was told I should be in ilvl 400 gear at 70. I was told I could get the tomestone gear at Rhalgr's to get to 400. I looked it up and I won't be able to get tomestone gear at Rhalgr's until I complete the Stormblood MSQ. I have literally 90 MSQs to go through to get to that point. By then I will be almost 80. So I will be level 80 before I am able to get the gear I need at level 70.

It just kind of feels really broken to me. I do enjoy the story, but let's face it, most of the quests I will have to slog through will be fetch quests and busy-work and it's really hard to find the motivation to slog through all that just so I can get gear which will be trash to me at level 80..