I still think at least part of the problem is that people turn to PF instead of having a little bit of patience with DF.

Every time I see people gathering an entire fifteen players for getting through Labyrinth unsynched, I wonder how much more effective it would be if we could just drop those fifteen players into alliance roulette. And sometimes I've seen those parties, queued for the roulette myself, gotten into Labyrinth and come out again to see them still waiting for their PF to fill.

There was also the time when Euphrosyne had just released, we were 22/24 in the DF queue and then the whole thing fell apart because someone decided it would be quicker to set up a PF instead of waiting for two more to join.

There's a perception issue, not just a lack of numbers, which makes it harder to gauge the actual scale of the problem.