Nah its great immersion tool if you have a good computer. I mean personally even during 1.0 I had a transition of a few seconds between areas it did add a bit of immersion. Yea even with Limsa Lominsa being 1 zone during 1.0 my load times were on par with what we have today.

However, in this example, a loading screen is a good to have that would be a bit of a transition that would be quite a trek to get ot the castle there though I agree though the open world could use less loading screens.