Quote Originally Posted by Fynlar View Post
Unless they're going to add actual reasons/motivations to being able to fly (beyond just not having to pay like 40 gil to move between the two sides of Eastern La Noscea), I feel like this will amount to a lot of effort invested for not very much effectively changed. Having both of the mount speed boosts (which I've had for a long while now) made ARR traversal rather simple enough already.

And this is just me being a pedant, but it honestly made more sense from a stylistic viewpoint for flight to only become available starting in 3.0. The expansion was titled Heavensward, for crying out loud. It makes more sense that way.
The next expansion will very likely utilize those old ARR zones. So it makes perfect sense to do the groundwork on modernizing them during the patch cycle leading up to whatever event takes us back there.
Its not a simple undertaking to turn the visual tricks into traversable terrain. There'd need to be a reason for it.