Well, they never have before. You can’t even get early fast speed in retail and never have been able to. The closest thing to it is the Chauffer mount, which allows you to ride at slow speeds right away.
You don’t buy that for money though. I suppose you could argue you can buy gold and then buy heirlooms to get the achievement to get the mount though.
Uhh… you can (and people do) literally pay 60$ PER character to be boosted with lvld gear, along with EVERY riding skill except master I believe. So yeah… It wouldn’t be crazy to assume they’re try to get away with it for AT LEAST one boosted character here lol
Boosted characters are already at the level you can get those speeds though. You’ve never been able to ride at 100% speed at a level where you can’t buy the training for that speed. The only way to ride at a high speed before you’re the correct level is to ride as a passenger in a higher level players multi-seat mount.
Not only does the boost not give you any real advantage in retail, it isn’t even worth it. In retail now you can level in any expansion you want, so there’s no desire to skip expansions you don’t enjoy when you can instead just…not level in them
On top of that, leveling is extremely fast, to the point that even playing casually you can reach 50 in less than a week of real time, and you’ll have more gold even after purchasing all the relevant riding skills than the boost itself gives you.
So basically you spend $60 to save like 5 days of real time to wind up in a slightly worse position than you’d be in if you’d just leveled normally
And yeah it sucks we have no option to simply buy the $15 mount/toy/hearthstone effect and have to take an upsold $40 boost and $15 game time month alongside it. We are gonna get the game time month already, it doesn’t make it a better deal by putting it in.