Eureka isn't that bad, had some fun today

[Nihility]

the only problem i see with it is there is almost zero reason to do anything but NM zerg train

even the lowest level one is worth more experience than a chain 30
anemos crystals from NM are way more abundant than trying to chain for protean
you only get loot boxes from the NMs
and the random nostalgia drops are only from NMs

they really need to just put in some random repeatable quests in the hub.
"go find the sparkly point" or "kill X mobs" that give some exp/protean/boxes

i do enjoy the danger aspect of it and understand the accelerating nature of the grind. getting crystals will probably be super fast once you've done the grind once

[Avenger]

the only problem i see with it is there is almost zero reason to do anything but NM zerg train

For me at least it seemed that trying to get kill credit/XP/crystals at the level-appropriate NM spawn point was better than mindlessly killing everything. I also liked that some of the FATEs devolved into horrible bloodbaths like Odin in ARR before people figured him out.

It also seems more effective to split into multiple teams working on multiple pops simultaneously, since there is a point of diminishing returns and also since lower-level players don't contribute much to high-level farms.

But this is right I think - regular enemies don't drop anything and don't give a lot of XP or protean/anemos crystals, so there isn't a huge incentive to kill them individually as a party.