Broadly, I think this would be a huge positive for the game.
I think the for plat/gifting options mentioned are good.
I think allowing someone like me to say to a friend, "I'll get you this skip so you can play the new content with me now" is farrrrrrrr better than "play 200 hours and then we can do the thing you saw in the new trailer".
But I think a skip needs to come with some kind of onboarding/training quest, even a little short one, just so people that opt for it have some context for the things that they get. You want to present things after the skip in a way that isn't just a kill screen like looking at modding can be. People need to understand what they skipped, that they can revisit it at their leisure, and be introduced to the systems they have gained access to so they can have fun.