Conclusion: We really like FATES, but lie to ourselves.

[Shurrikhan]

Making FATEs more enjoyable, would require a full overhaul of them.

I'm not sure it does, unless you just count even revised scaling techniques (e.g. based on active players in the current FATE, rather than at the end of whichever FATE was killed just before) as a "full rehaul". In many cases, it just requires that there be room and need for player interactions. Granted, that is a taller order now when so many means of interactions have been effectively removed from the game as compared to in ARR or HW.

I'm about to head to bed, but I can explain in more detail tomorrow if you're interested.