Why must chocobos be our companions

[sharazisspecial]

We already have to ride them as mounts , we already see them everywhere people riding them and showing of their armor. There are already in tons of cutscenes and are the paid mounts but now they fill the role of path companion , pet and battle ally. We will also have chocobo farms where we will raise them and perhaps chocobo racing may even come.

I feel like theres a thing as too much chocobo.
I really dont like the idea of my battle companion options being only chocobos with artifact armor on.

Since we get other mount types too. Ahriman , Dragons , Goobue and magitek armor . How bout we could bond choose which one we want as our path companion/battle pet. Have diverse and fun quests with them and summon them in battle.
A Quest where we upgrade our magitek armor
A Quest where we see the goobues family/comic relief quest
A Quest where we help our dragon prove itself to its clan(cliche but cool)
A Quest where we help our ahriman find forbidden curse magicks

Our battle pets dont have to be our mounts. Perhaps we could have a beastmen companion. Perhaps a moogle.

If people want chocobos with artifact gear and little hats and helmets o_O then they can choose them as their battle pets but others who want to use their other mount as a pet then they can choose those.
I dont like the idea of chocobos being everywhere in 2.0. Anyone else feel the same way?