Seriously if at least one of you had the balls (or w/e body part womans use to measure their bravery) to admit that there is no actual reason and this was for him/her specificly just covenient excuse to get the game more to his own liking ... i think i would finaly believe at least somebody.
There are plenty of reasons, you are just ignoring them, nitpicking the paragraphs that you want to attack without their full context.
I'm going to make it easy: everything has to do with the suspension of disbelief.
Even in a fantasy world, some things are meant to be magical and capable of defying the laws of our world, while others are meant to be mundane and governed by the same reality we are subjected to.
This is not "my liking", this is how the setting is built.
This is the reason why a magical sword flying doesn't bother anyone, while a non-magical sword locked 10cm away from a non-magical guy's back does.
We can sit here arguing for years about whether some things break immersion more than others, but if you refuse to accept this basic assumption then you are just arguing for the sake of it.
At this point who needs a walking animations anyways then? Just make everyone float to their destinations. Its so incredibly ironic that they want to have REALISTIC faces but ignore BASIC immersive stuff.
This.
