Quote Originally Posted by RyuRoots View Post
To OP: Absolutely not. I'm fine with mounts being mostly cosmetic, and being able to just go anywhere with whatever your favorite one is. It'd be an enormous annoyance to be forced to use specific ones, especially ones you need to grind rep for. Frankly, I'd start to despise those mounts rather than like them more. If anything, I'd want more mounts to be functional as Companions, especially the ones that already have attack animations finished (drake, elbst, etc).
Fair enough. That seems to be a general sentiment is what's done is done and to not take any features away. I like some of the other suggestions of unlocking certain mounts giving bonuses to all the mounts though.