Any talk about them doing away with Aether Currents for flight

[linayar]

Personally, I'd rather they made all of the flight requirements for an area into aether currents. Even if they put them blocked in areas you have to complete a quest to access, it always felt really artificial to me to have them quest locked. It's like "Hey, you helped Bob fix his chocobo-cart.. bam, you have attuned to an aether current!" Like, what, is the aether current coming out of the chocobo's rear end?

For gameplay reasons, they chose specific quests as the medium. I just think of it as doing an activity in that zone is an alternative way to going to a specific place in that zone for attunement. It's just so convenient that the MSQ is a worthy activity for part of that attunement.