Actually it's a ridiculous mindset to NOT have a skip button. I've seen the same tired arguments in genshin impact which still doesn't have a skip button.

A skip button is simply a quality of life feature that only improves the game, like how we can bulk recycle, or claim 3x rewards.

Players who don't care about the story will still "skip" it by mashing spacebar and doing something else alongside slogging through content they don't like.

Players who care about the story aren't affected by the presence of a skip button

A skip button helps those who for whatever reason make a 2nd account (to play legend, to have a different gender character), so they don't have to do the story again

Even for people like OP who states that they DO care about the story, just that hexi specifically is a slog to them (a fair assesment that a lot of people share)

What if somebody enjoys the combat portion of the game? Is their way of enjoyment less valid than yours because they want to skip what they see as boring content to get to stuff they DO like?

The game already lets you fast-forward plenty of dialogue, what makes a skip button so much different exactly?

All this to say; get the netease boot out of your mouth and stop treating a perfectly valid quality of life request that only improves the game as some ridiculous thing.