At this rate, I fear it's going to go in the same direction as Diadem. Say what you will about Anemos but it was actually possible to make a profit through it. A single NM would give you a bunch of lockboxes and they spawned frequently enough when not on a cooldown that you could count on clearing a string of them in fairly rapid succession.

Pagos is just a gil sink. I've spent more on repairs so far than I've made through lockboxes. You get less per FATE and don't even see FATE's spawn nearly as often as in Anemos. Furthermore, you only get experience from enemies - and that's only if you're in a group isolated from competing players. So it encourages people to head off into their own little corners and kills the social element that existed back in Anemos.

I just spent half an hour trying to create/get invited to a group as a RDM. Nobody replied. The 'NM train' approach is dead in the water, apparently...and even my joke suggestion to go and do the bunny FATE was ignored.