Did this bother anyone else?

[Slothy]

I'd honestly never really thought about this before, but you're quite right. Now this is probably going to bug me for the rest of my current play through.

You're welcome.

It's one of those things you probably can't unhear/unsee. Still, I'm surprised I didn't notice before now. It seems so obvious in retrospect.

[Cloudane]

I think I was also used to it from other games such as Everquest. Where you'd be in a jungle, then you'd walk through a zone barrier and find yourself in a desert :P

[Pete for President]

It never bothered me and I don't think it ever will. It brings somewhat of an element of surprise first time through. I like surprises.

[Formalhaut]

Transition zones would have been nice, yeah.

This.

It's just like the world map of all the other FFs. Forests are neatly contained shapes. It's like finely trimmed facial hair on the planet.

Ditto. Maybe Spira just has an incredibly specific topography.

[Clo]

I actually never really thought about it before - that whole world felt weird. And narrow.

[James_Cub]

I thought XII was even worst in that sense. You have some nice transition areas where everything blends in like Rabanastre, the Sandseas and so on, but then you have areas that are completely random.
In X, the weirdest one was the Macalania crossing. A freezing lake on one side, a huge forest in the middle, thunder plains to the other side, Bevelle and then the Calm Lands..