The real problem behind hunts is the fact that they trivialize the rewards of the rest of the content AND monopolize the only way outside SCoB to get sands/oil of time.

Simple solution: allow blood spattered mark logs to be bought with 800 mythologies. That would mean 2400 mythologies for each sands and 1600 mythologies for each oil.

This would split the community into those who would prefer to get sands and oil via myth farming and those who would want to do it via hunts. We are in a "catch up" phase where SE clearly wants us to start gearing ourselves with the highest tier stuff because new one is going to be implemented "soon". Let simply people do this "catch up process" the way the enjoy most FFXIV (be it hunts or dungeons/trials/raids/roulettes).

Suddenly 90% of the server is not going after these things and we no longer have abnormal queue times because everybody has lost interest in everything given the abyssmal reward hunts provide over the rest of the content.