It doesn’t punish people who do the grind. The people who did the grind got to fly when BFA was current content. It allowed those players to get around faster which increased the amount they were able to get done at that time. Now, BFA flying is “useless” to people like me who got the achievement when it was current.
I’m actually surprised it’s taken THIS long for BFA to come out, I was expecting Shadowlands flying to be given to players by 10.1, as I didn’t play the last part of Shadowlands so had assumed that BFA flying was already given.
I’ve gotten every single Pathfinding achievement since it first came out in WoD when it was current content. Keeping it hidden behind the achievement when a new expansion comes out is just stupid. When I got flying, I passively got at least 90% of the achievement done, whereas now, for people to do what I did, they’d have to actively go and do out-dated content.
I think that once a new expansion hits, flying for the old expansions should be unlocked. The fact that people can fly in Dragonflight but can’t fly in Shadowlands/BFA is kinda stupid, not gonna lie lol.