Lose lose situation.

If it was pure vanity stuff, then you would have complaints that they are practically pointless and you would have far less people out doing it, which would then lead to the usual "Nothing to do in the open world".

You add the raid stuff, and you get half a dozen forum posts about how much a failure hunts are.

They could have used that Leve system thing, but honestly that just creates the illusion of open world, and if it required spawns to be killed to pop those leveNMs, then you just end up with the same situation now.

There was absolutely no way Hunts were going to turn out any differently if they actually intended them to be Open-World and relevant.