"Exploration" isn't Exploration.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

That's cool but then they shouldn't have labeled it as something that sounds like something completely the opposite of grinding.

Have you explored it? The area is actually quite large. Besides, what would they have called it, "Sea of Clouds Grindfest Extraordinaire"?

I mean, the game is called FINAL Fantasy, yet there are zillions of them. They are notorious for naming things not what they are :P