The current mounts are just regular mounts. What will they do if they decided to create legendary, exotic, or rare mounts? I think they got ahead of themselves wanting to slow people down. The only other game I've seen mounts that required so much work to get is WoW, but that's to get rare exotic mounts, regular mounts are a lot easier to get as they should be. Currently for me the amount of work involved doesn't equal the quality of the mount. I may go for it one day but it took me a really long time just to get a few legendary weapons. I also play other games that have flying mounts and they are a lot less limited in functionality. I've played GW2 since beta but it looks like they're going in a direction I cannot follow.