Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[Nabiri]

Anima/instant transportation does ruin my sense of immersion (which for me, I NEED to enjoy a game) even though it has some lore behind it.
It's just too strange and... boring.. and.. over-powered, for lack of better words, for people to just be popping in and out of anywhere they need to be.
I understand it being in the game now, when there isn't much reason for real transportation, because there really isn't much to see or many places to go.. but I had always thought and hoped that anima would be temporary until real forms of travel came along. I really miss traveling by mount, ships, vehicles of some sort, and seeing other people traveling - perhaps meeting people along the way.
XIV is definitely about the destination, not the journey, and I don't like that at all.
It DOES make the world feel so instanced and small and lonely in my opinion.
I liked that XI had many forms of transportation and that there was still usually a tiny bit of walking involved. We got to see and experience the world on a daily basis. XIV is just "town -> camp -> camp -> camp -> town -> logofffromboredom."
One of my favourite things in a game is exploration. Once the maps are redone this should be something exciting for me finally. It does help to have a REASON to explore though... and the ability to be anywhere at any time kind of kills things.
It would have been better for immersion for me if teleporting was a mage spell or something.

An issue someone (well, a few people), brought up about the airship staying instant when we get the option for non-instant, is if two (or more) people are traveling to a party or something together, people like me who want to enjoy travel are going to be *****ed at for taking so long. >.> While I could give in and just take the instant route.. after some time it will destroy my immersion.. my feel of the game world being a place, and it will just be one of the little things that adds up and up and lowers my enjoyment of the game.

Anima isn't the only thing that may kill this game for me...

When XIV started I didn't even consider that I might not like the game. I'm really not too picky and I love SE's games.
Now, with so much of this "handing out everything to people on a silver platter" attitude SE has towards the game, it may drive me away from it honestly. I'm just not enjoying myself with the way things are going. Only still here out of hope. I honestly never thought I'd have to hope for one of their games.
In the meantime of waiting to see what happens to XIV, I've gone back to an old MMO which has a gorgeous world and lore so exciting that it was very hard to stay away from the game for 2 years.

I feel like a deserter even though I haven't really left XIV. ^^; I feel bad because I love SE and I used to feel like I believed in them. I'll wait and see what happens, but if they keep handing out instant gratification this game will never hold my interest.

Edit: Not to mention chars being $3 per... >.> And I like to have more than one character.. Sometimes I wonder if SE is TRYING to drive me away ; ; lol