Do you think lore helps or hinders?

[Naunet]

are you putting "lore reasons" in quotes because you don't understand what "lore reasons" actually are? of all those questions the only thing that's actually lore related is PvP factions. the rest is plain old game design, they use in-game dialog to give you the tutorial for that process so that Lv 1 players are not overwhelmed, there's no lore to any of those of any consequence.

Restricting chocobo access to having a Grand Company is definitely a restriction based on lore - and a poor one. I shouldn't need my Grand Company's permission to use my Couerl or any of the other mounts I have.