I didn't. I play this game for the story and for essicentally "hanging out" when I'm not raiding or crafting, so I like to know the lore of where I'm at.
However, I won't fault someone for wanting to skip ARR; it's extremely tedious. Or Stormblood for that matter (except the patch bits).
I do have a friend that skipped the story until they started to really get into some of the plot pre-Shadowbringers, so they went back and watched the stuff in the book again.
Just don't level DRK and skip the story and I won't complain