Originally posted by magnificent moose:

I support this idea.

In the meantime, you can do the following: when you start a new world with a new character, wait until the loading phase finishes. When the blue vignette screen shows up, press ESC and select "Logout". Then select your character and the world again and you will arrive at the spawn shrine and you skipped the cutscenes. Not perfect, but much faster I think.

i was going to post exatly this.
the support, and the work around.
good job.