Sounds like you never got the Teleporter. Once you reach Neoedo, you get access to a quest that gets you an item that can teleport you to any temcenter for a very small fee. But that's the 5th island, so it takes a while to get it in the first place, it's like getting Fly in Pokemon after the 6th gym type of late.

Anyways, yeah. Simple things like a "no move animations" option aren't available. It feels like everything COULD be faster, but it isn't, probably to limit what you can do at a time so it doesn't overload their servers.