Hunts are worse in XIV compared to NM's in XI simply because you at least knew the area they would pop in with XI so even if you didn't get a chance to kill it you knew it died. From this you could work out when you would need to come back for the next repop, whereas in XIV you wait and wait and wait with no idea unless people tell you when it's dead and thats unlikely to work all the time.

I think the least the devs could do is add a wide scan feature to negate everyone cheating, but that wouldn't solve all of their issues. Personally I don't know how they can fix this situation but I would say they need to do something soon as this has gone completely wrong. I would say popularity would die down but given the rewards from hunts, it won't die down anytime soon.