Any talk about them doing away with Aether Currents for flight

[Cithaerias_pyropina]

This. It's a reasonable requirement for unlocking flying. It takes only a few hours per zone and the devs get to design how we see the landscape for the first time, what mobs we encounter and how long it takes to travel to objectives.

"Grinds Fisher to max level with Ocean Fishing. Proceeds to swap to max level Fisher, turn stealth on, ignore all mobs, toggle auto-run on, and then tab out of the game until arriving at Aether Current"