I've been against this ever since Beta. People have worthlessly defended it by saying you should be focusing in dungeons, or they want to avoid griefing, or whathaveyou. So far they've been wrong. Dungeons are easy and constantly get speedran, griefing is still present and it's common for players to be singled out by an entire group.

The Dev Team's "plan" (which I believe is just a front to hide they haven't figured out how) doesn't work, and hasn't worked one bit. If anything it made it worse.

I also got a ton of friends on my list that I would love to talk to while farming dungeons, and as an FC leader I've also missed a good amount of tells who wanted to get into my FC.