I remember that interview.
“We believe this strikes the right balance between ensuring ground-based content lives up to its full potential, while providing players who’ve already fully explored Draenor’s outdoor world extra freedom to ‘break the rules,’” Hazzikostas writers.
I found that bolded part rather amusing.
There’s no reason at all other than because Ion the Great decrees it. Once you hit max level there’s nothing new to “explore” (Blizzard’s excuse for attempting to get rid of it in WoD). Beyond some very small pockets of permanent phasing WoW is extremely static. There’s nothing new out there. Treasures and rares have been nerfed and aren’t worth your time to go out of your way to engage with them. PvP is now completely optional even on former PvP servers so there’s no need to keep players grounded for that. WQ’s are boring and offer limited rewards (ooh love me some AP and war resources) so there’s little point in going out into the world. Add in mechanics like mobs dazing and dismounting you and you have even less of a reason to want to be out there to “explore”.
Burning Crusade, Wrath, Cata, and MoP all made use of flying. There’s no reason Blizzard can’t do the same now.
So if your not going out exploring what do you need flying for, your not doing WQ’s, your not going out for rares, why dont you just sit in the city and wait for the que…what do you need flying for?
If true, such predicted low point would be avoided by a more timely implementation of flight.
Because flying allows you to do more, not less.
If I can fly I’ll do more WQ’s. I’ll do more rares and treasures. I’ll complete more quests that I dropped once I hit 120 (mostly on alts). I will hit those precious playtime and engagement metrics the bean counters are watching more than I will not being able to fly.
Not allowing flying to make us “explore” more is upside down reasoning.
So what your saying is you just refuse to use flight points, which are usually really near the WQ’s. And for alt’s there is the thing you can by off the rep vender for a mere 90 gp to unlock the additional flight points for them.
Could you please communicate to the devs the displeasure of much of the players.
Personally I don’t need more reasons to let my sub lapse. I need reasons to keep it going.
I don’t think you know how words work.
For people who don’t have lots of time flying is great to log on and quickly do some world quests.
You need to convince them it needs to happen sooner…
Activision laid off the wrong people I think. They should have started with the people delaying flying.
No chance of getting you guys to delay it further? World PVP is doing great without flying.
Does it take no flight to restrain yourself and all your pvp friends to not mount up and just fight?
By world PVP “doing great”, I don’t just mean there’s a lot of it; I mean it’s a good mix of solo, small group, and raid size encounters. Flying tends to skew PVP toward larger groups, which is not necessarily an improvement.
Still didn’t answer the question.
That you like pvp now with no flying which seems to be a very common train of thought
If flight was enabled, could you and the pvp community still pvp and not mount a flying mount?
Or would the simple fact you could fly away override all of that " good grounded pvp " ?
At least 2 centuries old.
Accompanied by both parents.
Completed the war campaign on all available allied races.
Exalted with all available factions.
Thanks for clarifying the question.
It takes stupidity not to use all available advantages in PVP. Since most PVP people aren’t stupid, of course we’re going to use flying when it becomes possible. And since flying makes zones effectively smaller and grouping easier, it skews PVP toward larger groups, just as I said.
7 months a year does not make 
So I guess you will only get to enjoy grounded pvp for a little while longer?
Then what happens?
Then I enjoy PVP with flying, but not as much as I enjoy the PVP we have now.
Personally, I view the main reason to have flying to be letting people zoom through outdated content. I’d be happy with flying always lagging by one expansion.