I am not sure I like that. I do not like it at all.
I don't know about others, but I play the game because I enjoy playing it - not just to reach some mythical "end game" as quickly as possible. As other people have noted reach the "end game" quickly just means you tire of the game quicker - unless there is a steady stream of new content arriving, which we all know isn't happening for AoC.
The road to level cap is an important and fun part of the game which should not be skipped.
Level gain is quite fast as it is - one would have to skip significant parts of the game in order to not outlevel other parts it before one has even started playing them.
Bonus XP will just mean we will speed past half the game while barely noticing it.
If you do start to give out bonus XP, then please also provide some means of temporarily slowing down or even stopping XP gains so we can level at a slower pace if we want. I want to do content on-level, not doing while I outlevel it by ten levels making it all trivial.
As regard other changes, I have yet to see any explanation for why the account-wide purchase option that was available for many items has been removed - especially inventory increases.
Nor for why a great many cosmetic items have in effect had their prices raised substantially. Adding NEW items to the gilding vendor would have been fine. Great even. Moving existing items to the gilding vendor - not so great, unless we do indeed get many more ways of of obtaining the tokens.
Selling high-level gear in the store is NOT a good way of increasing the number of players who can join in raiding. Gear is just one thing needed for raiding - experience is another, especially important for the higher tiers.
If you had made the early raid-tiers easier and increased chances of getting gear in them, that would have been a much better idea than this. Then people would have had an easier time obtaining both gear and experience, while still having to actually work a bit for it. Obtaining the gear from actually playing the game is much more satisfactory than just buying it could ever be.
(This goes twice for buying instant level 80 characters - unless you require that the player already have a level character of that same class.)
In short - please roll back ALL the store changes, I much preferred the old one in each and every aspect.