The story is great, but it blatantly gets in the way of the rest of the game

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I would keep it simple, quest to 15, unlock the dungeons. At each level cap you unlock flying in that expansion's content and the next expansions dungeons. Once you are 80 you can start the EW quest line starting with the first quest released with the EW. This should also apply to all expansions actually, so if you get to SB for example and want to play through that you can.

Am I reading your suggestion correctly here? The answer is to, quite literally, rewrite the entire game to resolve the problems some new players have with content being gated behind the MSQ? How about we do away with the MSQ entirely? That'd certainly mean a much quicker run up to the so-called "End Game" so that people can enjoy two months of content every couple of years. And, while they're at it, they may as well remove all the earlier patch end-game content, since it's no longer current. Dungeons too. That'd certainly resolve the issue.

Yeah, it's a ridiculous read of the OP, and your comment, but it would certainly take care of the "New Players hate slogging through 8 years of content" argument that keeps cropping up. Of course, at that point I'd expect most of the playerbase to bail.

You don't really have to rewrite the story, just not gate things behind the story. It's not hard to do and really wouldn't ruin peoples experiences of the story specially if it was made optional. It's really dumb the way people don't think the game should cater to a better new player experience while they are literally reworking the trust system in every expansion to cater to players that prefer a single player experience.