I've been playing this game since beta and it seems like there is a bit of a conflict of interest with the chocobo buddy system and the duty finder. Idealy, we want to use our chocobo when we are out soloing in the overworld or while waiting for a queue to pop. However, if we want to queue for a dungeon, the Chocobo counts as a party member, meaning we can't have it out during a DF queue. Then there is trying to use your chocobo during actual group events, where it takes up an entire character slot in the party.

I'm not really sure what would need to be done to make this feasible, but if I think a lot of us would use our chocobo a lot more if it didn't take up a party member slot and was perhaps subject to some other kind of limit (maybe one chocobo per 2 people in a group?). It just seems like such a waste to only be able to use our fluffy feathered buddies when we are doing menial tasks.