Anima is fine the way it is. All you have to do is learn how to save it.

1. choco if the camp is in same area as you are, you can get to every camp in 10-15mins.
2. Take airship if its in another area and do step 1.
3. only use anima if you are in a real big hurry or have little time.
4. set these 3 As your favorites (Horizon,Iron Lake, Dragonhead) these are the most popular camps to lvl at and you only need to use 2-3 anima instead of 4-6.

there are only 3 camps ppl go to for party. Horizon (10-20) Cactuars > Horizon/Wells (20-30)Mites > Horizon/Copperbell (30-36) > Iron lake (32-45) > Dragonhead (45-50)

Reason why most people run out of Anima is due to laziness. Stop spending anima teleporting to cities/camps in same zone. If you seriously can't spend 5-10mins to run to places? Then you most likely shouldn't be playing a MMO.