20-45 minutes is about the same as what I got and according to what most others have said regarding DPS times in general, this is business as usual. Times were 20-45 before, they're 20-45 now...so nothing has changed really.

All we know is SE wants more people to do MSQ so they're incentivizing it more; the assumption is that fewer players are doing it but the equally valid explanation is that too few players are doing it before the patch and SE is taking the time to fix that now. Why didn't they do that before? For the same reason the whole cut scene issue lasted as long as it did, they didn't feel like changing it before.

We'll never know what the actual numbers of participants are, all we know is that queue times haven't changed noticeably and SE wants more people to do it. The doom and gloom, MSQ is ending and new players will never be able to complete it that people have been predicting simply hasn't happened and shows no sign of happening.