Fair enough that you don't believe this is a compromise for the so-called World-PVP'ers.
I believe this is a compromise between players desire to fly, and the developers idea to postpone flying as much as possible.
From my experience World-PVP'ers are so few and far between, they're a niche now. A group of players so few in numbers, they have no "punch" in the larger debate. Just a few ranting threads on the forum here and there, which is sad.
But I also don't see new argumentation anywhere. The "easy way" to summarize those threads would be: "I want THIS in the game, and how dare anyone else have fun i doing other stuff!", which is not working, because I don't see it working.
Or to off-quote it from Vaas: "Do you know the definition of insanity? It's using the same argument over and over again, expecting people's opinion to change"
But good luck.