I'm personally for things that can logically be ridden. Flying mounts pose various gameplay problems so that's probably out. Ridiculous things like cactuar are obviously out too. If it's just chocobos I'm fine with that but since they've said they're looking at other things to, I'm just trying to be positive and embrace their decision. It's not the end of the world.

Anyone shouting for tradition clearly doesn't realize that Final Fantasy is constantly changing from game to game as well. Tradition had to have been change at one point. New classes, new mechanics, new vehicles/mounts from other FFs, a lot has been added since the first FF.