Well for the people who are able to do (and doing) second coil don't think hunts change much of the life. At least it doesn't change anything much for me. The only change for me is that now I can actually gear up not depending on RNG drop in coil (my party is srsly getting the same stuff over and over again - took us ~2 months to finally see a melee jewlery drop and similar). And since i haven't beat t9 yet that means 1 sand, 1 oil per week for the whole party, which is quite ridiculous taking into account the duplicate gear drops every week.

So I'm relatively happy that i can do a hunt 1 or 2 evenings per week to get few ilvl110 items. Other than than - all the ppl who don't know what they are doing will have (or already have) 110 iLVL but that is the same thing as at the end of patch 2.1 everyone had iLVL90. But truly this gives players who are not doing end-game content to level up. People who want to do something else will do something else.