I miss the hunts because they were good for server community. On Excalibur we have a very friendly open to all way about hunts and it was fun teaming up with people on the same server.
Duty finder is too much like playing with NPCs with AI, going into a timed instance where people rarely bother to even say "Hi" is not fun to me (why bother talking if we'll never see them again right?)

I just hope SE doesn't totally give up on Open World content.