We need to talk about world visit and the hunt

Agreed, x-world hunting is hideous and stressful.

Personally I'd axe Cross world Hunts and maybe bump the spawn rate a little to compensate.

I really enjoyed Hunts in Stormblood. Trains were more manageable, less laggy and there was an actual community feeling on each server. You'd get to know the other Hunters, make friends, scout, help out triggering S ranks and so on. Nowadays there's still some community but overall it's more impersonal. Hunts are just a big zerg and for most of us there's no point scouting anymore, we just aren't needed. S ranks below ShB are hardly worth the time now too, often sniped or killed within a minute of being called and no longer dropping current Hunt currency. It's a shame, with both Hunts and crafting killed off this expansion the list of activities to sink time into shrank quite a bit.

I too am in favor of removing cross world hunts rewards. The whole hunt zerg culture is very off putting.

I've done some trains recently because of the tome gear upgrades with nuts and the fact that my new PC can handle the rush (never do hunts on a PS4). Most go fine. Others are a complete s***show. See a lot more "locals only" trains a lot lately.
S ranks are sometimes not even worth going to unless they are on your server, and even then sometimes they are dead the moment you get the call for it and get there. If there's one on another server, good luck getting through the queue before someone (usually someone who DIDN'T spawn the S rank) pulls up and starts hitting it.