I agree with the sentiment about Bozja. I like Field Operations a lot as well, and we'll be getting another one in about 5-6 months or so.

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It's a shame it's been relegated to a sidequests that not a lot of people will do (but more than old synched Extremes anyway).
If you avoid all sidequests then all you're ever gonna do is MSQ. And since some people only play for the story (rather than to be "good" at the game), they make them intentionally easy.

In fairness to them, they distinguish it from regular quests by making it blue. If it's blue, you know it unlocks something and is therefore worth doing.
This is the only place where FATES are interesting enough to grind
They have actually improved this in ShB, EW and DT with gemstone rewards. You can farm the ET and DT ones for gemstone vouchers to get mounts and other rewards. In any case, they make older FATEs useful for older relic grinds.
Castrum was on the easier side but still enjoyable.
It is now but on release with no echo and no stat buffs that we grind in Zadnor, there were a lot of wipes especially to the last boss and sometimes the second boss. The first one wasn't usually a wipe but I did see them.
it still had more people than when I was going through ShB MSQ areas
This is people from across the entire data center though. In the ShB MSQ areas, it's just one world's players, so it would probably be less regardless.