I'm level 80+, I don't fight most of the time because every mob ignores me, so open world is pretty much me suffering through running to places and back and another place and back, with zero fighting as the level difference make me immune to agro.

I think I got to level 80 before I unlocked the my trainer quest to get the top end skills that I've been running around without since 60-70.

I'm getting purple on my main gather, but can't buy anything as I don't have access to vendors that take purple.

And if you just say run the MSQ, well what the hell do you think I'm doing, all the ignored side quests is ruining the map I can't see the MSQ and have to suffer through that. The difference between one yellow icon with a ! and another with another symbol is not that easy to see, to know what NPC to click on.

Ignoring all those side quest ruins the story, as most of them is flavor to flesh out the story and they suffer badly from being done out of sync with the MSQ,

I've not ONCE done any party stuff or XP stuff OUTSIDE of MSQ. I got to level 40 before I returned to the MSQ and figured out it unlocked a lot of stuff, like a mount/companion. (I like enjoying the environment and running so it never bothered me much)

60+ is painful as everything is MSQ locked, so if you outlevel it on your main job, you get to suffer badly and Crafters just get it even worse as it is rather easy to get 90 on those without MSQ XP.

Getting downleveled over and over, means I have no bloody clue how to play my char as I constantly lose buttons and never really get to practice as that would just pile on more XP that I don't need. I actually tried to disable the idiotic road to 80 buff, who thought that was a good idea to give fresh accounts? It ruins the experience. It should be something you give to alt chars, not noobs.