You're so right. This is a perfect example of a long-term FF14 player who knows the system inside out, and considers any other playstyle "wrong". Which, if nothing else, is a selfish attitude. As a player who has just transitioned from WoW, the tank charging about gathering everything in sight is horrifying. That's how you wipe! Then there's the other element; WHY are you in such a rush?? So you can go do other stuff and get more mad lootz?? OK, that's what tickles your fancy and that's fine...but it's not what I'm after. I'm after the story. After all, I never intend to come back to this dungeon because I *don't* like group content. And that's MY playstyle...
Honestly, this is the one factor that may force me to go back to WoW; toxic and grindy, and stupid as it is. There, I don't have to do dungeons if I don't want to. I'm not going to get the best loot and that's fine; I don't need it for open world content. But in FF14 if I want to advance the story, I have no choice; I HAVE to do group content. I have a level 36 character at the moment who hasn't been contacted by a Grand Company...whatever that is, who can't get a mount, who has no idea where to go to see more of the main story and I think I've figured out that it's because I haven't done any dungeons beyond Tam-Tara (although nowhere is that stated in exactly those words...not in any doco, website, youtube video, tutorial or anywhere else). And that makes me very uncomfortable for exactly the expectations expressed by some in this thread. "You're not doing it right!" I don't want to bother other people by not playing they way they expect me to. Nor do I want to have to rely on others to play through the game; I just want to be left alone.
Kes13a is correct; the only way to NOT do any content correctly is if you wipe and don't complete it, and hopefully if that happens all the players learn something. There's an element of finishing it in a reasonable amount of time as well, I will concede that. But if we finish in 20 minutes instead of 15, what does it really matter?? This is a game, for goodness sake, and one that gives nothing tangible. It's just us First World people wasting time for our pleasure; we don't need to do this to earn a living.