Yep, been going on since the beginning of the game I believe. Back in 2.0, you would get the full mythology tome award for beating the final boss in a dungeon, so people would fish for in progress games just to snag the full reward. I believe it was on 2.1 where the devs changed the mythology awards to be evenly split per boss fight. Then they done goofed with the solidery tomes by making them final boss only reward.


Now we have animus books and nexus light content where the player only gets award for completing the final hurdle and not the obstacles before it, hence the high amount of in progress fishing. Sycrus Tower is worse because the best drops only come from Xande.