Its not that bad if you started on day 1.

With Pagos the problem is you get the mount at lvl35. Since most people are now lvl35 or close to lvl35 it may be hard for you to find a group to start. And unlike Anemos there are more teleport crystals so people just teleport and mount to get there unlike anemos where there were only 2 teleports( not including home base).

Your best bet is finding a low level group in pf or stay in anemos until you are lvl23.