As I read your post I was immediately hit with déjà vu of peoples' attitudes towards the radar thing. Everyone was /shout-ing about how they should just give up because they couldn't get anything and clearly the only ones getting seals were the radar users(I was quite offended by that as I neared my third day in a row with no sleep).

People who QQ'd seemed to either actually give up or adopt the radar (adding to the problem). It's the can't beat them attitude.

I haven't been actively hunting for a week or so (just picking up stuff I hear in an ls while working on books) but since the hp adjust I've noticed a large increase in how long it takes to down a hunt. Someone pulled Melt early yesterday and because there were so few people we fought it for 3-5 minutes and got hit with a lot of the attacks you used to didn't see because it died too quick. Perhaps the situation is a bit worse on Behemoth or something.