I can't believe it took me this long to see the "damn they shoulda coulda" connection between this thread and the
other thread about how SFF is now purchasable via trainer.
I'm fine with making it so you can buy swift flight form to eliminate the the problem of future druids having to complete a quest in an old-school dungeon nobody wants to run anymore. But they shoulda left the trinket you get from the quest as it was so those druids who did (or still do) complete the chain get the fancy go-faster trinket.
That would have differentiated "old school" and "purist/lore-conscious" druids from everybody else by giving them a somewhat meaningful reward without punishing everybody else by depriving them of something seriously valuable.
I think it's pretty obvious we're within days of WLK when two threads about flying are staying popped to the top like this. : )