We should get exp boost in the game.

[Rymm]

What's even more surprising is the amount of people just seemingly telling new players they don't want you here.

Well that's quite the double-whammy of assumptions. First, that players who want the story to remain central to the core gameplay are somehow unwelcoming to new players joining the game. Secondly, that the majority or even a large minority of new players somehow find the MSQ to be an insurmountable obstacle that causes them to quit the game.

I'm an alt character player. I don't believe in one character being everything

Ah, here it is. Let's drop the façade of those "poor little new players beaten down by the MSQ" and get to the real root of your post. It's not the new players playing the MSQ for the first time (when it's all new and exciting), it's people who choose to level multiple characters and are "forced" to see the MSQ over and over in order to do so that spawned this thread.