I'm on a low pop server and it's been like this since I started, with occasional breaks whenever a patch came around that incentivised hunting for a while. I swear Alectryon would spawn on quest/leve targets every time I was in Western Thanalan, and Melt was a constant presence in my life when I'd do beast quests in East Shroud. We have a couple of hunt groups on Yojimbo who will clear things out when they are online but there are so few people around that the marks will often be up for hours, and of course people die to them. I sort of like it but then I came from FFXI and like a bit of rough and tumble (the lack of fear in outdoor zones is a bit disappointing and I'm amazed the chocobo keepers haven't gone out of business when you can just safely autorun everywhere).