Everyone that doesn't want jumping is apparently fine with a bland and featureless world. Why is anyone even trying to compare CURRENT mechanics 1:1 with jumping implemented? The game is changing, if they want it to be part of gameplay then it will be part of gameplay. It is so incredibly pointless to say theres nothing to use jumping for in a game that doesn't have it yet.

The entirety of the OP was beating around the bush and then turning into another "WoW has it, I don't want it" and then proceeds to degrade the playerbase. FF Mystic Quest had free jumping.