Yep.
You can even bypass that requirement by exploiting flag fast travel to bypass the mountains around the chaos wasteland. Or for a more legitimate option you can just build stairs, lots of them. (Easiest should be at the cliff north of the desert native village; you only need a small number of stairs to get into the Giant's garden, then you can either backdoor the Giant fight or build another stair or two to bypass the fight).
Or turn off Invisible Walls in the debug options, but that's boring.
For boss rushing on a new playthrough you need to invest in Smash early (kill villagers then Anglers for the XP). Or use the animation-cancel exploit (block cancel normal attack very rapidly) but that's nearly impossible to pull off without macros. Another option is to rush Command to get a powerful pet early but the capturing and taming process will take some time even with fast forwarding.
There's a few sequence-breaking guides on Japanese wikis that usually either bypass bosses by rafting NW along the coast to the desert (to grab the Cactus Sickle/Shield/Wall recipes, and R-capturing a high level female native) or going NE to near the mines then bypassing the mountains with stairs to reach the Swamp (for Plant Workbench), then more stairs to reach the Highlands (for Wing Workbench to get the shield). Either way, you'd also want to hunt a few deer along the way to get leather to drop flags for later fast travel while you're at it.
These guides don't usually mention the flagport exploit to get past barriers. Guess they consider it a "dirtier" exploit unlike rafting or stair-building.
Yeah, Level 30-70 is enough to clear most game content. Even lower for pet users, or for people with good reflexes using reflect damage shields. Only reason to go above that is to clear higher-level totem-boosted raids... so you can clear even higher level raids... and so on.
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