Honestly, after all that ground mounting I've done and will continue to do in new zones until flight is unlocked, going back to older zones seem so much better with the smaller areas. It feels much quicker now, besides a zone or two, of course. Large zone is still large. Regardless...HW has made the slower ground life easier in older zones.

Not that I would ever be against increasing their speed and anyone who disagrees is disagreeing for the sake of conflict with others. Such is life on the internet. But it still does feel faster in older zones compared to the behemoth HW zones, so there's that for you, and it's probably all you'll ever get. We may as well embrace it for whatever it's worth.