Quote Originally Posted by Sida View Post
Those who stumble to the fly requiring quests before they have flying tend to be those who cherry pick what quests they do, and ignore getting the currents when it's easiest, that is, just picking them up along the way when doing the first wave of the quests of the zone.
Uh, nope - cherry picking nothing. I cleared MSQ for Western, I picked up the open world aether currents. I went back settlement to settlement to bulk run all sidequests on alt jobs for exp. Flying quest for the cat in the first settlement popped for me before I started running side quests in other settlements, and didn't have all the quest based aether currents because of that.

As much as I question OP's desire to not want to fly, there's no practical reason not to include simple QoL improvements in game such as flagging when a quest requires a specific mode of transport.