If you arent watching the cutscenes(because the story is "tedious and boring") and your friends are helping you skip the ques for the dungeons and trials then why havent you finished these yet? Watching the cutscenes you can blow through these in around 6 hours if you dont have to wait for groups. Skipping is less then half that. And while not all the story telling is on the same level, last time i counted the number of "story relevant" quests in this set was between 65 and 70. Sure 1/3 is a lot of filler(and most of it is front-loaded which makes it feel worse), but even that isnt as bad as its made out to be.

So OP, ill echo Rokku. How far along the chain have you made it? Because the last guy i tried to respond to about this "broke" on the 3rd quest, and its hard to offer encouragement to someone who cant handle even 10 minutes of filler.