Going to bold your key point

Quote Originally Posted by Hustensaft View Post
One single word: Congestion.

Hunts were designed for never designed for the current active population. It's virtually up to luck to with the congestion roulettew - that's why the vast majority of people wait, to give people chance to get through congestion.

As you play on Crystal, you are on the data center least affected by congestion. On EU it's signficantly worse, and we also have the added "benefit" of having less world to travel to (aka 12 s rank spawn less per cycle).
Why are we trying to force a system to accommodate something it was not designed to handle?

Have players forgotten there is a lot of other content that reward tomestones and materia? That daily hunt bills also reward nuts?