My personal opinion from my play experience says the opposite. The golem has a direct effect on gathering productivity. It increases your potential gold gain and has flight in areas it’s enabled allowing you to bypass mobs AND water; while the striders only negate the movement speed penalty of crossing water while traveling on the ground.
What’s wrong with getting everything we earn?
Free. It’s already been paid for when the mount was earned.
No, but they should have everything account bound that the account earned. Are heirlooms safe? Every other mount? Pets? Toys? Various content unlocks (pathfinder/intro skips/etc)?
This goes to both of the previous two quotes about alt price/access: We’ve been able to get current content gear for alts through BoA tokens at multiple points in the game with another coming soon, but alts can’t get free water shoes?
Not nearly as often as other mounts. What is “used” would need to be defined. Do you want distance traveled or most often summoned? All my characters use the repair mount quite often, but it doesn’t really leave the spot I summon at. They all have their mounts (many times to go with mogs/themes). Strider, X-53, repair, transmog, swimmers, flight, and style… my mount depends on the area and reason for summoning.
When do we get access to the auctionhouse, transmog, gathering, passenger, and repair mount equipment?
I’m pretty sure that trying to put stuff up for sale, or taxi a friend, on my violet protodrake would be the wrong choice.
If the striders were given the same treatment as the golem, no change to function and no benefit from the system, this whole issue could have been avoided. The fact that other mounts are keeping their perks shows that it’s possible. The striders are the only ones being hit. There’s more going on behind the curtain that’s not being said.