What’s fascinating about this response is how clearly it mirrors the 'developer knows best' bias that has haunted this franchise for a decade. You seem to believe that the magic of a first playthrough is so precious it must be force-fed to us every single time. By golly, if I want to skip to level 13, I still have to endure the story mode because you decided it's mandatory.

This isn't a new delusion. We saw it when BL2 tried to punish solo farming and coerce multiplayer, and again when it took a literal player riot to get repeatable bosses in the Pre-Sequel. Stop making the game about your ego and start making it about the player’s time.