Mounts as Companions?

[Enkidoh]

I don’t see how companions have been replaced by trusts or squadrons. One is for open world the other is for instanced content.

True, but SE are basically turning away from open-world content, and what there is which is otherwise expected to be run with player parties (A/S/SS rank Hunts), or they provide npcs to help you anyway (solo story battles), and what is left the existing Companion Chocobo is enough.

Would I like to see more Companions? Of course I do, I would love to have the old 1.0 Path Companions return, but again the Trust/GC Squadron has all but replaced them in instanced content and the Companion Chocobo in solo content (the later evidentally by Yoshi's own statement on the subject) so alas I do not see them returning.