I’m not being vague you just aren’t grasping extremely simple concepts. Like it’s actually surprising how you don’t pick this stuff up.
If you are flying over and not interacting with 90% of the content on the ground (the hills the obstacles, the mobs, the pvp) you are skipping over it. Sure it doesn’t ‘get rid of it’ but I never said this content is literally deleted, it just gets skipped over and blizzard doesn’t want players doing that. You need to tell me where your disconnect is with this very simple, very elementary statement.
I literally answered this question right here in case you incapable of readingSo how does that answer my question? Would it not be better to give people who don't like this the option to not do it, if it means people who DO like it can still do it? And if giving that option to people means everyone takes the skip - doesn't that sort of mean there ISN'T as much value in all of this as you think? You're again just throwing empty phrases, gross generalizations, and vague assumptions - how flying somehow "skips all of this" (as opposed to, say, focusing on the coolest parts), how exploration not only has intrinsic value to everyone but is also completely invalidated by flying (neither of which is self-evident in any way), or how flying somehow means you can't/won't "soak up all the new content" (clearly not true since they're giving people pseudo-flying and portray that as a good thing). And, most egregiously of all, that somehow this being an mmo means that flying "skips over the game" when all it does it affect ONE tiny aspect of the massive genre complex that is MMORPGs.
And what makes this even better is that this is quite literally their words not mine. It’s not that they never thought of the option that maybe some players want to skip it, they straight up said THEY DONT WANT ANYONE TO SKIP IT. So with that thought in mind, they don’t care if you would rather do X, they are going to make sure you do Y.Blizzard designed their new expansion for you to explore and for you to travel around and soak up all the new content they are giving you. Just because you don’t value this as content doesn’t mean it still isn’t content. And they clearly don’t WANT people just getting on flying mounts and skipping all of this. They want you to jump into the world and explore it.
Let me really dumb this down for you.
There’s a new game called elden ring right? It notorious for being really difficult. Well what you’re basically asking is for the devs to put in a dragon at the beginning of the game so you can just fly over areas you want to skip. It’s not that they aren’t adding this dragon in the game because they haven’t considered your little feelings about how you would rather just fly, they don’t add it because they want you to EXPLORE THE GAME. It doesn’t matter to them if that isn’t important to you.
Again, you used strawman incorrectly. You seriously need to Google that phrase before you continue to misuse it.That's another strawman. I care about the world, and I think exploration is cool. Where I disagree is that flying somehow completely takes those away. I in fact VEHEMENTLY disagree with it, to the point where I think flying MAKES THOSE EXPERIENCES BETTER, not worse.
Let me make this very simple for you. Blizzard doesn’t care if you don’t believe it takes away from the game. The fact of the matter is BLIZZARD thinks it takes away from that aspect of the game which is why they turn it off at the start.