Hunts are mostly fine, if you want the best of the current best you still have to do Coil because some Soldiery pieces are pretty bad even upgraded, who cares if non raiders get gear when next patch the vertical progression will continue. There's plenty of info about respawn timers now too to form your own parties and there are also plenty of PF parties at least on my server, if anything Allied Marks should drop from more content especially GC related content like Frontlines, I mean it doesn't even give GC seals. Maybe once new GC ranks are implemented marks will start dropping from other content just like seals don't drop from FATEs until you join a GC, Allied Marks might even be required to rank up, who knows.

They really should fix the display priority and maybe add more HP to them though or raise their difficulty even though zerg rushes would minimize it in the end. Weekly caps would just do more bad than good, there's finally some sort of semblance of open world content that can be done freely and without waiting for a queue to pop, limiting it with caps would just relegate them to yet another thing to cap on the first days of the weekly reset and then have nothing else to do.

Having mobs show up on the mini map would help too and would lower the use of third party tools, 1.0 had that feature and NMs even had a special icon but I guess the flimsy servers can't handle it anymore. They've also mentioned they're looking into increasing daily hunt rewards so that will help too, we'll see what they'll do next week, though seeing how it mentions NA/EU specifically it might just be updating the Hunter Scholar descriptions so they're more accurate to the original Japanese text.