It's your server

[Rooj]

And finally, I saw this little tidbit on reddit just now, since we were talking about dragons

I saw that post, it's just not true. As I said in another post, I'm surprised by how few people I can find at puks/dragons during Gain Exp. Actually, there's Gain EXP right now, let's go look!
Sorry for the volume and quality I don't make videos. https://youtu.be/WP0XwCNHeeo
This is around 7:10 AM CST on a Sunday morning. Not the most active NA time but still JP peak time.
I'm going to assume since you're on a low pop server, that most of the people are soloing instead of teaming up, since that's one of the prevailing mentalities amongst small servers. There's no reason not to team up though, so people are just making it harder on themselves for no reason.
Also I find it funny killing single target just as fast as those who require AOEing, heh. I'll try to make some more appropriately timed videos, not like I can control when Gain EXP happens. And I forgot to show the quest log as proof that it was even active.