Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[Jaber]

DUURRRRR

Anima is teleport from anywhere to point A. Or B. Or C. And so on.
Airships are run to point A, teleport/ride to point B.

Anima has an effective time cost of 8 to 24 hours depending on the location you teleport from and the location you teleport to.
Airships have an effective time cost of however long it takes you to run to point A.

Personally, I don't like the way anima works and would rather it be set up similarly to the insta-travel airships, e.g. teleport from Aetheryte to Aetheryte for a much lower cost.

As for quests... quests need pointers. They don't need to be big DERRRR pointers, but they need to have pointers. Clear directions. You should never need to guess blindly at what you need to do. In FFXI, that's exactly what you ended up doing most of the time, as most of those pointers were not in the game. They were on the wiki. That's just poor design, and I'd like to not have to figure out what ??? I need to check in what zone at what time, assuming I need to check it and not trade it an item or items or dance naked in the moonlight next to it while someone plays banjo music with their feet.
That is, of course, entirely and completely unrelated to the topic of forcing delays on people for no reason other than to force delays on people. Call it immersion or whatever you like. It's still a delay, and it's still forced on you whether you enjoy it or not, and it's not going to be any more enjoyable if you don't have the option of skipping it.
Forcing it isn't going to add immersion, unless it's simulating what it's like to ride an airplane filled with clothing mannequins when everyone who doesn't enjoy it goes AFK.

I love your immersive dynamic content idea, however as I'm sure your aware If that choice were to be presented the hard way would have to out way the easy way with benefits, as does anything of that nature.

Obviously if you skipped the ride you would be skipping any events that takes place during the ride, including any rewards or repercussions they may offer.