Personally I think the aether currents are perfectly fine hell you ran in to most of them if you quest in the area.

The most fun moment I had with this was when I just got the compass and went to sea of clouds. started using it and it pointed me somewhere (mind you at this point I had no idea on what even to expect) so I am running around at a point when using the compass I get the message "aether current is 0 yalms to the west" o_o
I dint see anything so I started searching around after 5 mins or so then I decided to look over the edge and I spot a landmass below me and then it clicked XD