I do not expect this to happen because of the massive work involved but honestly, I wish they would rework FFXIV the same way they Guildwars 2 is.

Base game goes level 1 to cap, and each expansion has its own story and can be played independently of the others, although the game plays as if you cleared the expansions in order.

This means as long as you are max level, you could jump right into ShB, but NPCs will refer to ARR/HW/SB events as if you had done them.

It leaves room for expansions to just exist independently, and allows you to play the parts you like.

Rather than a derp 10 level gap before rinse repeat allagan/raid/whatever gear cycle, I’d rather just start at cap working towards better gear.

To be fair, most GW2 gear are glamours only... so..