Quote Originally Posted by forumaccount View Post
Both do invalidate the intent as well as the game design as it currently stands. The option to pay a real world fee to skip the mechanic completely invalidates the alleged purpose of the aether current mechanic.
That's like saying leveling and MSQ is invalidated because of boost. Not everyone will use boost, and if you want to pay SE more to do so, then SE gains from that, so they have no reason to remove it.

As well as, having flight enabled only to have it disabled in the next zone for arbitrary reasons, is not an enjoyable experience.
Just because you don't like the reason does not make it arbitrary. And if you don't enjoy it, feel free to boost, in the next expansion, since you can't boost through current expansion content.