I'm not gonna spend several days raiding Monuments, Mansions, Desert Temples, Ruined structures, Ancient Cities, and Bastions just to get specific non-renewable items from ten-thousands blocks away. Elytra eases the problem I have.
You control the buttons you press.
I've come around to the realization that Elytras are by and large one of the worst additions to Minecraft because they entirely eliminated a pillar of base building (especially on servers) by making literally every other transportation method redundant once you get one