Square Enix blew it for some of us, but I'm still here...

[FateAudax]

I'm shocked that you didn't mentioned the love for "hide and seek" quest which SE have installed for us in Heavensward especially in Dravanian Forelands and Churning Mists.

Find the items which these moogles lost.
Find the moogles.
Find this and find that.

Apart from these hide and seek quests (which I have completed), I have no other complains except that they've changed my beloved bard into a caster (which I will rant in the relevant thread).

[Tenku]

I'm shocked that you didn't mentioned the love for "hide and seek" quest which SE have installed for us in Heavensward especially in Dravanian Forelands and Churning Mists.

Find the items which these moogles lost.
Find the moogles.
Find this and find that.

Apart from these hide and seek quests (which I have completed), I have no other complains except that they've changed my beloved bard into a caster (which I will rant in the relevant thread).

Haven't gotten there yet. Lost motivation to continue with main scenerio after all the going back and forth between NPCs just to unlock new content.

[Woggers]

Haven't gotten there yet. Lost motivation to continue with main scenerio after all the going back and forth between NPCs just to unlock new content.

I do agree that the quests can get tedious, but there are other options. FATES, Dungeons, and Levequests are all available to break the repetition.

I've waiting no longer than 3 minutes to get into The Aery as a DPS. So dungeon spam is viable for all jobs.

[Shurrikhan]

Find the moogles.

How many of these quests were there... Five or so? o.o

To OP:
3) I didn't have an issue with the entry to Ishgard at all, and kind of liked the bits with the two (or, three) sons, though I can see why you might have found other points in the MSQs a bit underwhelming, especially their (as in (4)) fetch-quest aspects.

1) The only good alternative I could really think of would of would take a lot of programming, sadly, and may not even be possible, but, just to throw my two cents out there for now:
Keep the aether currents, but make them a bit more like actual currents; e.g. you can ride them and only them at first. The nodes themselves would be (though I'm loathe to use this reference) the jumping ledges from Assassin's Creed), typically signalling the end of and allowing a quick exit from some particular area - allowing a limited form of flight until you land, or between a combination of your first landing, flight time, and/or distance traveled. Flight speed along currents improves as you unlock more, and flight speed is still a bit faster along currents than generally once you have access to unlimited flight. In this way, you fully experience the zone, but still get some of the questing-facilitation of flight before you've nearly run out of quests.

Complain because you have to put some effort in? FFxiv is not the game for you. Effort = reward.

Also not sure why this is such a common reaction after reading something that is clearly pointing not at the issue of effort, but of contradiction (getting flight mostly only after you can use it) and tedium (I doubt the OP would complain about tougher but more interesting quests)...