I can' read all the comments since I'm at work. I imagine your post might have gotten unwarranted negative feedback. Like you, I also find teleportation as incredibly immersion-breaking. In this game, when I once brought it up, I got the predictable, cookie cutter response of "Then don't use it..."

In Skyrim, I would use a mod to turn off fast travel. I realized that while I enjoyed the initial parts of the game more, all the hundreds of quests that made me go from one end of the map to another, made everything inefficient. FFXIV is quest-city. While I would like nothing more to have no or limited teleportation in Eorzea, I know that I will be setting myself up for failure - because FFXIV is just not that kind of game. It's not a virtual world to explore and exist in, it's a game to complete and excel at. That said, I appreciate your post and you get a thumbs up from me!