While I agree with the other poster who said you're playing the wrong game if you think the story is a slog (though the entire Titan section of the ARR MSQ annoys me to this day), I've always felt that certain trial fights (heck, all trials even...) should be gear synced to a certain item level, particularly the final MSQ fights. You shouldn't be able to just steam roll the final trials for 3.0, 4.0, 5.0; those should be at least somewhat difficult given they're the culminating fights for those parts of the story.