Feeling Defeated

[Rau]

This one sounds pretty good at first, but then.. what does one do inbetween timers?

other content.

[Leoheart]

other content.

Eh, Maybe.
You can't really use this argument because only one of each hamlet is avaliable per day, AV and CC last 20 minutes, only thing you could do is spam Garuda.
Extended timers would make things bleak.

If they were extended to an hour, then I would agree with you, but then an hour in between runs doesn't warrant increased drop rates.

[Orophin]

-Most everyone had a double+ melded class weapon

I think you're reaching here with the "most everyone". It seemed to be the general consensus that making class equipment was generally a waste of time apart from having some crafted for looks. To go even further and assume that "most everyone" who actually had a class weapon made and went as far as to double socketing it is quite a leap.