So, I play a lot of characters and started to notice that on my characters that have herbalist and mining on them a possible bug. When on a flying mount you can hover above a mining node and it will allow you to harvest without landing, but you have to land to harvest an herb. I know there is the ability to harvest while mounted but on a fresh character I shouldn’t be able to do that until I unlock the ability (40 for herb, 60 for ore).
On my characters that do have those abilities unlocked, it’s the same way and I don’t really play druids that would allow me to transform into my travel form to harvest. Started checking my characters that are strictly either herbalist or miners and can confirm it is a advantage for miners to hover and mine while herbalist have to land.