Tap To Travel

I have tons of desktop companion games and I can see the appeal of this one but unfortunately the main point of moving around the map is absolutely impossible without a teleport which you might not get for tens of hours into playing. I got excited seeing photo icons on the map thinking I'll get some info about the area by traveling there, but they don't do anything. At least that would give me a reason to move, because how in fresh hell am I supposed to manually tap 7 million times to move accross the globe??? Even getting to another city is going to take me hours, my best bet is to stand still and not waste my time, hoping that I'll get a teleport one of these days and I don't end up in the middle of the ocean. The 500k step consumable didn't help because I didn't have a direction set so it dissapeared without moving me anywhere. And it's not like getting anywhere is particularly important because you can click on the map by accident and remove your previous marker without any warning. This could be somewhat fixed by adding upgrades to your character so he can move MUCH faster in the future. It would be an awesome companion if there was even a chance for me to get anywhere without having to spend literal years to casually tap several million times. If icons did anything I would much rather have them all around the globe to drop collectibles when I travel there, but the distance per tap would have to be SIGNIFICANTLY increased. I feel like it doesn't have to be another clone of waiting a set time for a drop (that's my personal preference because I hate just waiting without nothing to do in the meantime). For now you can delete the travel part entirely and the experience would actually be better without the frustration of not being able to get anywhere on your own.