I do currently have 83 anima at the moment ingame, and I play for hours per day every day. I am speaking for those who cannot seem to manage it so well, and have no alternative but to shut the game down if they'd rather not do DoL/DoH.
There's nothing that bothers me more than people who argue online for the hypothetical people who need defending.
Also, 45 minutes to run across eorzea? That's like limsa to gridania...boat ride and all. I cant imagine making that trek often enough to find it worth complaining about.

There are always going to be long walks in an mmo (windurst to cape terrigan), it's a drawback of having a world worth exploring. The idea is to manage your anima so you have it available when you need to make one of these long-ass runs. The true issue here is that they havent finished the world redesign and that there isnt enough interesting environment to make us willing to walk.