Anyone else find unnerving as hell when you see that one guy afk for days on end? Kinda worry about them to be honest.
Used to know a person on Gilgamesh who'd be in Mor Dhona just afk for an eternity even being in the exact same spot after maintenance, in fact I can't say I even knew them, they were always afk! It's pretty spooky.

As for the OP.
I think this as a user mentioned is only really a problem when a new patch or expansion is out though I may be having technical difficulties on my end because I've not got the best provider but it's worth mentioning that I've had these issues on new patch days so I don't know, could go either way.