This content was horribly designed when it could have been so much better. End of story.

In most cases just reaching the required area is fairly difficult, then you had to wait for the correct time and weather to match up adding who knows how long of a completely pointless timesink into the mix when you've already reached the destination.

Or you can try desperately to see when the right weather will occur in that area via weather npcs, and then hope you can get to the spot before the weather and/or time of day ends. Oh joy, that sounds like sooooooo much fun.

I'm am quite jaded, yes. Initially I started doing the sight seeing log when it was first introduced. However the first time I got to a spot and waited hours and hours before finally giving up because the weather/time of day were not matching... yeah, no thanks. That's not fun. F that.

Guild Wars 2 did it with a system that was far more fun and only required you to reach the location, and that location was clearly marked with an icon however reaching the icon was the fun part.

The same could be said with XIV, some of the locations are crazy difficult to reach, but having to add ontop of that requirement that you have to get there at the right time and weather conditions? Ludicrous!

I will never finish this unless they remove the time and weather conditions because it's just not worth wasting my time over. End of story.