It’s also much earlier than pathfinding and as people have stated its a classic blizzard move of taking an idea from another game. In this case GW2 they took the animations too mashing together the griffon and skyscale. The point is that they also took the mount mastery system too which is a system to improving individual mount capabilities they use access experience points. So in WoW and how they do things it will no doubt be the same system grind we saw in order halls, torghast cube, horrific visions, and zereith mortis probably with the same wait a couple days to learn the skill itself bs.