Aether current gathering should be a current expansion deal, imo. I'd like to see them unlocked via MSQ completion for old content in the future, as they currently work for ARR flying.

It's the primary thing discouraging me from making a second character, i don't want to deal with gathering all the currents again.

This expansion in particular, it took a while for me to work up the will to go and get them done. Especially tempest, who cares about tempest.