Well, I don't really PvP at all so I can't comment on frontlines, but hunts have been a mixed bag and I'm curious to see what Square Enix's development team is going to do next to improve the system. Right now, Hunts are beneficial mostly due to the fact they represent a better upgrade path than animus/novus, which is just so grindy that no sane person would fathom doing them unless they were incredibly bored or just couldn't find a better game to play at the time.

Right now, I'm hoping they will make S ranks appear regularly and have abilities that make zerging them a bad idea as right now most farm groups just ignore the S rank windows to focus on A and B rank enemies. They also should probably have iLvL 110 or 100 gear available from hunts instead of just giving sands and oils, as the hunts are at least somewhat less repetitive than repeatedly running through coil or other end game raids.