Would be nice.
But id settle with just removing all the time gatings.
Like, for real. The maw woudlve been so much more fun if i couldve just blasted away and farmed rares and cleaned out every corner fo it during the first week of wow. Grinded out that venari rep like a maniac.
But instead the maw is possibly one of the most boring thing ive done in my life. It was genuinly more exciting to clean up my apartment, do dishes or washing than doing the maw dailies for 20 minutes a day stretched out for 3months.
Same with Torgast, i played more Torgast on beta with no rewards than i did on live with rewards. Why? because the beta didnt have arbitrary gatings. On beta i could grind out all 8 portals up to their highest difficulty over a weekend. Spending perhaps 30+hours in there and still having challenges left to overcome that i at the time couldn't overcome in the useless premade gear we had.
But when it was released on live servers... after 2 hours there was nothing left to do. Timegating made it dead on arrival.
I know my opinion doesnt apply to all players, some players doesnt want to play the game and would rather have less to do ingame.
But when a new expansion launches i want to play wow, i want to play the content. But everything is locked away, hidden behind timegatings.
Hmm, i got a little offtracks. as to OP. Nah, i dont think we need shortcuts, just remove the timegatings and i will blast my way throu the cotnent and ill be having a blast doing it.