It's now clear that the MSQ gating of expansions has nothing to do with 'story integrity' and everything to do with pushing 'boosts'.

There is absolutely no reason why someone couldn't CHOOSE to skip old and in good part obsolete content and dive straight into the latest expansion .. there are clearly many way to level a job to the required level .. so SE's locking of content is simply there to coerce new/returning players to pay cash to be able to get into the current content.

Stop it SE, just stop it.