Quote Originally Posted by Laisera View Post
Uh...

Stormblood did the exact same thing with The Fringes, The Peaks and Yangxia where you got half the area then came back later. Shadowbringers did it with Kholusia and Ahm Araeng too. It's not a new thing to this expansion to have you not able to access all of an area the first time through for the first few areas you pass through.

I'm not saying you don't have a point about area gating, I'm just saying it's not new or unexpected here.
Even Heavensward did this with Dravanian Hinterlands...

The dude complaining needs to learn how this game works. You're NOT INTENDED to do all the side quests when you get to a zone. Yoshi-P has publicly stated several times that this is the case. They're intended to be a means of leveling secondary jobs and learning a bit of side lore after you finish the MSQ.