Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
By zone, I mean the default area covered by your map (without zooming out).
Again, that's now how WoW works, though, especially in a post-level-scaling environment. Every "zone" in XIV sense can be moved between every which way, without loading screens; the instances are content-sized. It'd make little sense to be able to fly in one zone, cross one inch too far along an invisible, seamless border, and instantly drop to one's death. Even if there were a safety period and the like, why would flying in the cold, gusty skies of one zone be different from the cold, gusty skies of its neighbor, etc.? If you unlocked flight in the Broken Isles, it applied to all the broken isles. If you unlocked flight in Outland or Draenor or Northrend, that capacity wouldn't be split by sub-zone, because neither are those instances (any more than flying over a small hub suddenly changes you to a new "zone" just because it's a named space).

Flight does not do so for most of the content that you do in the open world (at least, from what I've experienced from WoD through BfA zone).
When you can do said content even at minimum ilvl, gear beyond that point, just like speed and the ability to avoid dangers beyond what is necessary to reach all necessary parts of a map, is mere facilitator/accelerator. Does the ability to nullify dangers, including barely-avoidable rares and the like who could one-shot you vs. being one-shot by avoidable raid mechanics, matter for one but not the other? That seems inconsistent.

The equivalent of withholding flight is not time gating gearing, but time gating access to cross server raid or access to some kind of dungeon finder or pre-made group finder.
I have to disagree; the closest parallel clearly seems to be overgearing / gearing beyond what is absolutely necessary, as would nullify certain dangers and make the process on the whole quicker.

I'll take your word it, but I think you get my point.
Depends. Is your point that "the world PvP environment caused my mounts, typically considered worse for world PvP's enjoyability, is an added risk that WoW players chose when playing on a PvP server (formerly) or on Warmode (now), knowing that flight would eventually be unlocked anyways"?