A good compromise, in my opinion, for duty finder and exploration is that once you get a group via the DF you have to travel too the dungeon. Give everyone 5mins or so of travel time. Also for premade groups on servers you could just travel to the dungeon to bypass the possible wait that happens when you use the duty finder.

And as for teleporting I kinda wish you could only use it while interacting with an aetheryte. But you could use return anywhere.

I miss traveling as much as the next person but, someone said their best experience in FFXI was in CoP, that was an expansion, ARR still has time for growth.