I go to abbysea on samurai, swap to blm, swap to bard, swap to dancer etc. all the time. I talk to people in the group and I have a good time. Then, when I get tired, if I feel like staying, I tell the leader I'm going afk and if he wants to kick me, he does.
I really don't get this crap about scenery. Parties never roamed much (trolls was a minor exception I guess).
Traveling to a new camp for the first time EVER was somewhat of an adventure I guess, but after the hundredth time, it's just annoying. There's always that one guy who gets lost, never shows up, falls through a crack, aggros and MPKs the whole group etc. You can keep that crap. I like adventuring when I'm doing missions, quests etc. When I'm going to kill the same mob family 1,000 times in a row, I just want to get there and begin the slaughter.
There are what? 18 possible dominion op camps (random guess)? Name me 18 possible camps at any other level. That's not even counting the hundred other places you can camp without ops which by the way are not the fastest exp and should really only be done if you are specifically trying to leech people in the first place.
All this of course is completely ignoring the fact that if any significant number of people (regardless of what this forum says) actually preferred that old party stuff, it would still be popular... and it isn't.