As long as we have chocobos, I dont see a problem with limiting anima or teleportation.

It was only while we had no form of transportation other than running (slowly) that I would be adverse to anima system being restricted.

I like a game where you have to travel long journeys, but sometimes that can just be annoying. FFXI had a nice balance when the tele-taxi system was set up (with WHMs shouting to tele people) and you still had to run a fair bit before you found yourself at your destination, so it set up an actual world which you had to traverse, rather than a set of points you instantly warped between.

I guess my point is, sometimes you have to balance convenience with immersion, and ffxiv hasn't struck the right balance yet (with anima).