I hate aether currents with a passion

[Snugglebutt]

It's fine, it's there to provoke you into doing side quests and opening up more side quest story lines that reward with aether unlocks plus actually exploring the content on the expansion zones rather than just running to only MSQ locations etc. It's not that hard to collect them and the reward of flight in the zone is good enough. It adds a little depth to the traveling around too so I am okay with it.