There are still quite a few servers with very low populations (empty housing plots, weak economies, no login queues - ever - and all the other goodies) but as we see on the forums, more people prefer to go to the big famous servers and go to extreme lengths to do it. I imagine that the servers which are often locked for character creation have relatively few new players compared to more hardcore people (though levelling alts is still a thing).

However if you also don't want so many powerful people in Duty Finder it would likely have to be a new server group entirely. The weaker servers are still grouped up with others for DF and different servers advance at different paces.