Now that I am reading more posts the question I have for people opposed to making the MSQ gate less content is how does affect your ability to play or your enjoyment of the game? The MSQ teaches you nothing about how to play your character or be good at the game so making less of it mandatory won't affect the quality of players at your level or in dungeons you are doing, even more so with dungeons in ARR and soon to be every expansion soloable. If you choose to go back and make an alt and go through the entirety of the MSQ that should be a choice you can make, but if you would rather just skip the post ARR MSQ and move to HW I don't see why that is an issue.

And for the argument about just buying a story skip, doesn't that invalidate any point you would make about the importance of playing through the story? If the story is so important why would SE give you the option to purchase a way to skip it? Why not let people skip the post expansion content if they just want to keep pushing forward with their characters instead of holding them back to sit through story they may or may not care about?