Its not a punishment. Its restoring some form of exploration into the game. Something is truely lost when you can traverse a zone in 20 seconds. You’re playing a game built from an RPG but it has turned into a frankanstien mismash of systems. One such system is flying without limits. It fundamentally hurts the game. Blizzard understood this but they gave in to people like you. But now look… Classic is more popular and there’s no flying whatsoever. They need to stop catering to people like you who want to get to the end point without experiencing the journey, when the journey is a huge part of an RPG.