An opinion you're probably all alone with?

[NichG]

I see no reason not to include fast travel and quest markers as an option. Sure, there are plenty of people who don't like them, but they can just not use them. If you take them out of the game, though, the game is made worse for the people who do want to use them.

Well they'd still be in the game, but they'd correspond to actual in-character actions or acquisitions rather than just being automatic from game start. That'd make them nice early-game goals to acquire those things and to upgrade or augment them as the game goes on. Like getting Mark/Recall/Almsivi Intervention/Propylon indices/etc in Morrowind. Or like getting the airship in a Final Fantasy game.