For players who were dedicated to hunts and had fun with them, an hour of hunting would be more time to have fun than just a few minutes.

For other players a patch with many story quests would be fun because they can spend a lot of time with the story while for others would just one or two quests be good because they could be done fast and they have morer time to do other things.

There will always be people who like content how it is and people who don't like or have never dealt with that content. And whenever content gets changed by SE to get more people who didn't like or never dealt with it into that content, some people inevitably will dislike the changes. That goes for everything, not just for hunts.