We should get exp boost in the game.

[Iscah]

We're taking about the MSQ right, because I feel like most the fetch quests were more related to side-quests and thus mostly optional.

Nah, there's a lot of fetch quests throughout the MSQ. I went through it on an alt not long ago. All through ARR and post-ARR, there are a lot of fetch quests, "kill three squirrels before we can progress" quests, picking up random objects, fetching parcels from halfway across the country...