Aye. Most of the missions are quite local and with sprint with swift inherent. Plenty fast to get around.
I tend to like to get an attack chain going first and some defences.
Azrael.
Have you actually done the low level missions since your first couple characters, say before Inherent Fitness? It sucks travelling across a zone dodging mobs.
Nearly all my heroes in the Champions TTRPG (except the guy who could change into a tiger), could fly from the start, and nearly all those I created in COX and CO should start with Fly as part of their concept. I hated waiting to fly in COX. Fly is a super power that I want to start with.
So those who like the old way of COX... piss off. Let us play and make characters how we like to. And capes SHOULD be available at level 1. The devs did many gatekeeping things wrong, IMO.