its basically paving the path for something like this lol…
“this is a think you do but you don’t scenario… you don’t want to fly so fast through the new content because you will miss vital experiences… so we are going to reduce dragon riding speeds to 415% speed until we implement dragon pathfinder in 18 months… after this time, you would have had a sufficient amount of time to adequately explore the new zones and experience it in the way that the developers wanted you to explore it… ENJOY!”
so then, what would we be left with?
Dragon riding that has all the downsides of dragon riding (lack of control, no hovering, lack of accuracy) without the ONLY positive: fast speeds.