Just saw the livestream, great to announce the stream itself just 1 hour before by the way, and I have to say that mounts are a huge disgrace to the game.
You revealed that they will be put into trove, so behind a paywall. Nice...
Mounts give infinite stamina and a speed boost. But only on land, you can't use them on water, not on walls and not during dungeons or battle. So, when and where are we going to use them?! The game basically consists of dungeon runs. Open areas are dead or auto-combat afk zones. Doubt the new pvp zone will change that and if you have forgotten, the mount can't be used during battle. So no fleeing or ambush with them.
When I tested the game during beta th egame was okay for me. But I really got hooked into it when I reached the dragonscale valley with the amazing windstride animations. Heck, I did the scene immediatly a second time as it was so cool. Mounts just have no value for this game, they can't bring such an experience and hav eno purpose. Adding mounts to the game is a huge sign that developers, or people managing the "content", are so out of touch with their playerbase/ their customers.