Quality of Life Suggestions?

[EvalcieChevallier]

"Eliminate Aether Currents"
No thanks. They could be planned a little better, being located in actual points of interest so you have more reason to seek them out and more likely to visit them when looking for something else.
"An ingame browser"
What? Why? This seems like completely unnecessary work, and it would be a lot of work.

"Mounted combat zones"
"Airships/Submarines"
These seem incredibly unlikely and a lot of dev work to accomplish.

But why does flying have to be locked behind anything? Just let us fly in new zones without fumbling around with unlocking a grindy thing.

Fighting or exploring in submarines, or chilling out with 30 friends in airships in air zones or fighting in the air would be a fun new thing to do.
Same with mounted combat.
At the very least, let us knock mounted combat bosses off.

ALSO:
Stack Restrictions
If Triple Triad NPCS can have stacked ★★★★, ★★★, ★★★ decks let us use our stacks at will!

[linay]

But why does flying have to be locked behind anything? Just let us fly in new zones without fumbling around with unlocking a grindy thing.

What's grindy about unlocking flight in FFXIV? You attune to each aether current once for the duration of your character's existence.

[EvalcieChevallier]

What's grindy about unlocking flight in FFXIV? You attune to each aether current once for the duration of your character's existence.

Some of them are locked behind dungeons or quests. If queue times are bad, good luck waiting. Wiping? waiting.

Why is the idea of just... "getting into a new amazing zone, and FLYING EVERYWHERE RIGHT AWAY."
I would still explore the ground because quests require it!
or at least making them all easier to find and not locked behind quests and dungeons.

Also if more than one person is on the mount and the driver teleports to an aetheryte everyone shares they all stay mounted.

[Yasminou]

Some of them are locked behind dungeons or quests. If queue times are bad, good luck waiting. Wiping? waiting.

Why is the idea of just... "getting into a new amazing zone, and FLYING EVERYWHERE RIGHT AWAY."
I would still explore the ground because quests require it!
or at least making them all easier to find and not locked behind quests and dungeons.

Also if more than one person is on the mount and the driver teleports to an aetheryte everyone shares they all stay mounted.

As far as I remember, only one aether current in each expansion is locked behind an optional non solo duty: Dusk Vigil for CWH and Shisui of the Violet Tides for the Ruby Sea.
All the other duties are MSQ related and the last MSQ in a zone always rewards an aether current to prevent you from flying before that.

[linay]

Some of them are locked behind dungeons or quests. If queue times are bad, good luck waiting. Wiping? waiting.

That's still not a grind. And most of it you do as part of the MSQ anyway.

Why is the idea of just... "getting into a new amazing zone, and FLYING EVERYWHERE RIGHT AWAY."
I would still explore the ground because quests require it!
or at least making them all easier to find and not locked behind quests and dungeons.

Also if more than one person is on the mount and the driver teleports to an aetheryte everyone shares they all stay mounted.

My guess is because the open world is already easy enough without flying, certainly easier than in some parts of ARR zones.

[Canadane]

But why does flying have to be locked behind anything? Just let us fly in new zones without fumbling around with unlocking a grindy thing.

So you can get a feel for the land, and see the sights they have to offer. Just immediately bypassing all that, then why bother making terrain at all?

All the lists that had been posted contain some good suggestions, but also some questionable ones. I'm not sure why people want things that are not actually all great or useful, some even straight downgrades from what we have now.
There's a reason why it feels like SE is deaf to suggestions.