Truthfully, even the Oldwalkers had more difficulty moving companions from plane to plane than some people seem to remember. In Planeswalker, we learn that many planeswalkers Urza knew had traveling companions to keep them sane (much like Xantcha), but many of the crazier ones were those who spent their immortality alone. Meanwhile, to planeswalk with Xantcha he had to come up with a solution based on artifice. And it was only because as a Phyrexian, Xantcha was more comfortable than most with the idea of having her body modified that to make it work. In the very next book, because of Xantcha's death Urza is forced to come up with different solutions altogether. His first idea-- petrify people so they can survive the Blind Eternities then restore them-- actually got some people killed because even stone can get cracked by the Aether. It takes him the entire book to figure out more safe methods, culminating in his ultimate creation, the Weatherlight.
Meanwhile other planeswalkers from Dominaria seem to prefer the companionship of other planeswalkers to keep them sane, or to just settle down somewhere like Freyalise and Bolas. So most of them don't have Urza's particular skill for planeshifting non-planeswalkers around. Teferi may or may not have the knowledge due to being tutored by Urza himself, but by the time he was a full fledged planeswalker, Jhoira was already captaining Weatherlight. Venser in the newer lore had some ideas of how to recreate Weatherlight's planeshifting engine, but Koth forced him to fight on New Phyrexia where he gave up his life for Karn's. I haven't read the Ice Age books, but I get the impression that Jaya never learned the skill either, if only because she was never the scholarly type of mage (more a mercenary, really). And Lilliana definitely never learned how to do it, since she looks down on non-planeswalkers. Karn, if he knows how to do it, probably has a similar attitude to Koth about the technology. He's seen two too many inter-planar wars in his long existence. So that means that at the moment, all of the Oldwalkers that know or have joined the Gatewatch lack the skill even when they were at the height of their power, and Kaya finding a BS way of shifting people through the Eternities is actually not unprecedented in the lore. In fact I would say it actually makes more sense than Urza's final non-artifice method described in Timeshifted: turn the person two dimensional while in the Eternities. And I only just now realized that's a meta joke about the game...
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Meanwhile other planeswalkers from Dominaria seem to prefer the companionship of other planeswalkers to keep them sane, or to just settle down somewhere like Freyalise and Bolas. So most of them don't have Urza's particular skill for planeshifting non-planeswalkers around. Teferi may or may not have the knowledge due to being tutored by Urza himself, but by the time he was a full fledged planeswalker, Jhoira was already captaining Weatherlight. Venser in the newer lore had some ideas of how to recreate Weatherlight's planeshifting engine, but Koth forced him to fight on New Phyrexia where he gave up his life for Karn's. I haven't read the Ice Age books, but I get the impression that Jaya never learned the skill either, if only because she was never the scholarly type of mage (more a mercenary, really). And Lilliana definitely never learned how to do it, since she looks down on non-planeswalkers. Karn, if he knows how to do it, probably has a similar attitude to Koth about the technology. He's seen two too many inter-planar wars in his long existence. So that means that at the moment, all of the Oldwalkers that know or have joined the Gatewatch lack the skill even when they were at the height of their power, and Kaya finding a BS way of shifting people through the Eternities is actually not unprecedented in the lore. In fact I would say it actually makes more sense than Urza's final non-artifice method described in Timeshifted: turn the person two dimensional while in the Eternities. And I only just now realized that's a meta joke about the game...