I remember when this first started for MSQs, and was universally panned as a dumb idea by players from a product team woefully out of touch with the experience people actually want.

Yet here we are years later, and the dumb idea persists. Can someone on the product team not apply a smidge of common sense that anyone who wants to view the cut scenes can do so through other means, so you don't need to force them down the throats of every player? All it does it needlessly prolong dungeons that used to actually be fun to play through, and now queue for 30 minutes because they are no longer worth the bother.

Author's note: I wrote this during the intermission loosely referred to a cut scene in Praetorium leading up to the 2-minute fight with Nero. General comments among my fellow players during this lay somewhere between "going to go make a sandwich", "man this sucks", and "I want to dig out my own eyeballs with a plastic spoon".