I recently made an alt, and I gotta say going through ARR again is bit frustrating, but as a 10yr veteran, I can understand that at the time, SE didn't foresee that they would need to cut down so much story content on year 1. We were all mostly coming from 1.0 and FFXI and were already used to fetch quest fests and forever quest chains that just wont get to the point. Times have changed now and at least they are beginning to acknowledge this now.