The Amaro mount...

[Shougun]

That's still pretty easy to get tbh. It isn't exactly hard to get all of the jobs to level cap.

I mean it's not a hunt mount (Orz lol), but I think OP, and to be honest myself too, is coming from the context each expansion we've received a free mount that we road quite a bit earlier in the quest chain. Especially for example the Yol from Stormblood (giant bird, hippogryph thing), and the Magitek Walker from ARR - both of which were very cool mounts. We did also get the Black Chocobo from Heveansward but I can't really recall if we rode that for quests or not (and legacy / draught > black chocobo), certainly the Yol and Magitek were introduced early on in MSQ content first like the Amaro though.

So to me I actually felt like Amaro fell perfectly in line with Yol and Magitek feelings. Also I think getting all jobs to 80 could be a bit of a spiffy-er mount than just Amaro (like I said maybe colored or big boy variant). I guess, to me, it just misses expectations in a few places. Is that end of the world? Hardly, even OP just said they're salty - they're not going to quit and they're not raging.. but it does just feel a bit "amiss" and surprising (in the non-good way). SE doesn't "owe us" a change, but I do think it would be super cool if they might consider making that level 80 achievement a bit grander and baking the normal Amaro we've already rode into something else that's more in line with how Yol and Magitek Walker felt.

Perhaps they could even make it so all 80 DoW / DoM earns you a grand Amaro (big Seto like, perhaps with a few extra details) and then if you have all DoH and DoL at 80 (on top of all DoW / DoM) then you're rewarded with a colored / further enhanced version.

Anyway, am not mad (not a big deal lol) but it just doesn't sound as expected / normal and while I doubt SE would change it.. I think it would be neat if they did.