Casuals only have a couple hours a day to play so it's important that this time is spent in a meaningful way. While I'm no fan of instant teleportation, I don't like slow walking across the Karana's either. Mounts are a perfect middle ground. From a financial standpoint this would make great business sense too since the mounts cost 2500 daybreak cash which equals $25 real life currency. If the server has 2000-5,000 people on it, that could equal $50,000-$125,000 USD just in mount sales alone. Please consider releasing mounts at the start in classic (minus the ridiculously OP buffs). Thanks!
Mounts are in game. As soon as you get to Luclin. They won’t add them sooner. One thing they seem to have stayed pretty firm on, in TLPs, is they release features in the expansions where said features were originally released.