YES fates are broken.

[Lithera]

People whining about Coil just want to be geared out in a week so they can whine they have nothing left to do...

On topic however, some FATEs do have slightly hefty timers on them. It would definitely be nice if there were triggers for at least the quest-tied FATEs. Could even retain a spawn window to avoid FATEs being chain spawned and blocking other FATEs. Even a three hour window doesn't seem that bad if you KNOW if you go out there at X time and satisfy X condition you'll get your FATE to spawn.

[Estellios]

People whining about Coil just want to be geared out in a week so they can whine they have nothing left to do...

Couldn't possibly be wanting to do stuff with the entire FC instead of having to exclude people or feel like you're punishing people because something came up and they weren't able to make it.

Re: FATEs, the ones I have done lately have generally felt like they didn't take too long. I would really prefer them to be super frequent though as waiting around for them to spawn is the worst. Coerthas is easily the worst place as people have been saying. It's very large and trying to help cycle other FATEs usually ends up with you missing the one you need.