So much stuff at level 60 is timed in some way and IMO it holds the experience back greatly.
The things I am talking about are...
1) Swapping Talents in your Forge Bonds costs gems and each one recharges on a 10 hour timer.
2) Healing your companions at the command table costs a high amount of anima or a super long recharge time (over a day).
3) Torghast stages behind locked to a unknown week amount. Right now you can only do the first 3 stages and its unknow when the rest will come out.
4) Weekly cap on Soul Ash needs to go. If I want to grind it until I'm blue in the face let me.
5) Weekly renown cap needs to also be removed, Once again if I want to grind it let me.
6) The amount of anima you get doing WQ's is soo small and makes doing things like the listed above and Sanctum Upgrades extremely long to do.
7) The maw not allowing mounts so it takes longer to do stuff in it.
The leveling experience in Shadowlands IMO was smooth. But all of gates and caps screams mobile gameplay and funny enough some of it can be played on their app. I legit have nothing to do the rest of the week unless I level a alt because of all of the caps and super slow grinds. Everything feels like its in place to make you play longer and not have fun.
All of this stuff is honestly pushing me away from SL and making me want to play it less. Sucks because there is also a decent amount here I really enjoy. I have loved the leveling and the dungeons.
That is just my 2cents tho, do you Agree? Disagree? or somewhere in between.