sadly, SE don't really care for the player lambda, they only care for Casual player or Hardcore that are both extreme into mmorpg.

Cyrus-Wallace, it's not a social event, when the 2.4 will be out, if the hunt don't give good reward, you can be sure that most of this gathering will simply disappear. they exist only for one reason, by greed bond. the hunt as it is it's not near decent and need a whole rework, the bandaid patch we get since the 2.3 will never make it work since SE ignore the two main trouble from it.

- open world content tend to be zerged, meaning no difficulty outside have enough contribution.
- mankind nature, people only want the fastest and the most efficient way to get reward. leading to the first point.