I suppose I can sort of understand it, especially for some of the ITFs that send you to hell and back to get a drink of water or something, but I also agree that just tooling about, even if you're rushing to do so, to get to your next mission is usually part of the fun, at least for me. Over the weekend I started a new stalker (best tourist-mode toon, of course!) and actually started him redside which was my original home, and soloed him up to like 20. Taking the time to re-visit all those trashy places was just wonderful, I'm not crying, I've just got some endearing pollution and smog from the Isles in my eye.