About those 24hr timer HNM you mentioned. They are trigger popped now. No timers, and no camping involved. Same for endgame content right now, short repop timers for monsters and trigger pops. If your idea of endgame competitiveness involves lots of waiting and camping then I'll have to pass on that idea.
I'm going to be optimistic and say we'll see more cool things when jobs and 2.0 launches. I'm just going to wait and see.