Winrie, can you please explain why, to anyone, extremely long spawns are, or should be, a good idea to put back in?

Before you answer, let me point out, as you said
Most of us, like me enjoyed fighting exotic rare mobs that could floor us, not so much the prestige if there was any Norte gear so much.
if this is the mentality of most of the hardcore players then why are the times to these spawns get included in opinions saying to do it? Were it not for the HNMs being time spawn, or at least this long of a time spawn, I doubt I would have anything of a problem. Also if the gear is no problem, why do some say they want special gear? This is my biggest problem. I am all for fun, hard fights, but when restricted to such a small amount of players, and giving something that is rare not because of difficulty, but limitations, it upsets me.

Now that I have explained, can you please explain to me how these would be good for the game, and its players?