For the most part I'm loving the expansion so far, but there are a few absolutely baffling decisions made by the dev team. This is one of them.

It's an amaro. It's not Twintania or a pegasus. Amaro(s?) are as ubiquitos for travel in the First as chocobos are in the Source. There are a bunch of them up on a hill in Il Mheg just chilling. This isn't some rare or legendary beast, and an amaro mount should be an MSQ reward or a post-MSQ sidequest reward or etc.

And on the flipside: you level ALL combat classes to 80, and all you get is a regular amaro? No effects, no extra lore, no mount based on some legendary creature no one has seen in a thousand years? Just a regular amaro?

From both sides of the coin, this is dumb.