These Aether Current changes for old content is great.

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

Only need to do 4 Travel ones now and they're all near where the MSQ takes you.

Makes all the pain of getting the old ones hurt a lot but it's overall a great change for newer players.

[Shougun]

Seems like a smart change, still a bit of exploration and not instant to flying (which does kill scale) but also not a huge pain to get flying (which kills the ability to quickly catch up in content, adding frustration, and do any group stuff without being likely chocobo out of luck).

Though I do hope in their next mmo maybe they consider a more GW2 approach to mounts (definitely a fan of 'movement is a form of gameplay' and shouldn't be a neglected platform... which doesn't mean Ultimate difficulty concepts, just that it is a thing worth looking through it's own lens when examining how the game comes together).