Not to be the debbie downer, but the trend they're doing is obvious, keeping drop rates extremely low and keeping it all group based.

It's all busy work until 2.0, we still have like 3 months until 2.0 hits and the LONGER it takes someone to obtain something, the better.

Might as well keep everyone doing hamlets (relic AF, crafter gear, gathering gear, anima) so that there is an incentive for everyone to constantly have something to do.

It's intentional in it's design. If you could go off and do something solo then why in gods name would any crafter or gatherer bother with hamlet?