In my mind, simple solution would be to make it go faster.
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Once you get farther in the game you will see a variety of mounts. There are a quite a few. Granted there are a lot of reskins but just unique models wise we have chocobo, fat chocobo, fat moogle, zu, ahriman, bomb palanquin, dire wolf, dracolisk, that ugly sahagin mount, horses, Adamantoise, Fenrir, gobwalker, primal birds, pegasus, gryphon, dragon, wyvern, Twintania, allagan defense nodes, mini airships, warhorses, war lion, war bear, couerls. It's pretty extensive.
Like Daemius said, wait til you get further into the game. Some of the mounts are rewards from achievements or from primal battles and they look awesome! The 2.0 primals each drop elemental based ponies and the 3.0 primals drop birds.
I think we can all agree the next mount will be Doom Train
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