I can only play in spurts - sometimes I can play for hours, other times I can't play for days. Some nights I have only a 1 hour or less window to pop on, try to craft a bit, and then I have to log out.

By removing anima, any of the people in a similar situation would have to waste much of the limited time they do have to play just getting from point A to point B. If I can only play an hour or less, under the current system I can at least craft up some leves, tele to another city and get in a few more leves there as well.

If anima were removed, many times I would only be able to log on and grab leves at the one city I live in. When you only have 1 hour to play, 15 minutes or so of traveling is a huge chunk of that playtime.

I still plan to explore and ride my chocobo when I have the time to. I don't always have time to. Why should the option to use up my already limited anima points be taken away just because some other players have more time to play?