Square Enix needs to realize that when an entire playerbase tells newcomers that "yeah ARR sucks but it's worth it later just go through it" on the regular, something is very wrong and it needs to be addressed. First impressions matter and no matter how good Endwalker is going to be, that is not going to help the sprout going through ARR to enjoy the outdated content. If anything it is only going to encourage them to bumrush through ARR to get to the "good stuff". Why not just make ARR the good stuff in the first place.